Thanks for all your responses, fellow mariners I have to apologize for not being responsive to all the replies to my previous threads. I learned...
and they are all built in China or Taiwan. Names such as CHB 34 that cost $200,000 , Eagle 40' cost $300,000, or North Pacific pilothouse 42...
Thats show U how NEW I am in this business, hahaha! But seriously, if I am to use a trawler in the 34' - 42' range, cruise within sight of the...
do you book your berth ahead of time? Or communicate via VHF and do all the booking just before you arrive ? Or do you dock the boat, and run in...
Handheld GPS you can get but do they have portable radar? that one can move from boat to boat if you are bareboating?
A shorty charter will indeed how I will get out feet wet.... I will start with a one week NY canal charter on a 24' Nimble Nomad w/ 50hp...
Thanks for the advice, I'll take that to heart honestly, if I can afford a trawler, even a pre-owned at that, I will get that. If my finance...
My cruising plans may be a little bordering fantasy or impossible If I am to base near Baltimore or NYC , (1) I plan to go north , Chesapeake /...
The plus side on owning your own vessel is, you can outfit whatever chartplotter, radar, GPS system on your vessel. However, if I go the...
I know I know, I was urge to buy a pre-owned trawler ( DeFever, Marine Trader, etc at $250,000 range ) instead of a motoryacht ( ChrisCraft '70...
If my starting point is Baltimore , wanted to sail north along the coast, pass Cape Cod, Pass Maine coast, around Nova Scotia, into St.Lawrence...
When I was telling my friends that I yearn to retire and live aboard a trawler, these questions came up: (1) Can you ever sleep soundly in your...
Interested in a cruising / RVing retirement lifestyle for a couple. Debating whether to (1) buy a used trawler (36' $250,000 range ) or used...
Been thining about retiring and living onboard. 1/2 of my friends suggested pre-owned trawler say a 49' DeFever pilothouse of the 80s vintage...
I understood vessels that stay long term in one area rent a slip, but what happen when you sail from point A to point Z m with all those short...
We are a couple in our mid 50s planning to retire into living onoard a pre-own trawlers in about 10 yrs. Never owned a boat. But preliminary...
Trawler or Motorsailer ? For living aboard for 2 and leisure cruising on the Great Lakes, down the Eastern Seaboard to the Caribbean, I am...
Buying a trawler to cruise for a few years... I plan on buying a new trawler just to cruise for a few years, can anyone tell me... My cruising...
Thanks for the responses, friends. If any of you read the latest Passagemaker edition, there is this review on a 34' CHB trawler with a starting...
Hello, fellow forum members. I am new to this forum and hope I will find useful advice here. We are a couple in our mid 50s. We always wanted to...
