Long-Range Trawler / Explorer Yacht Brands

Broaden your horizons:
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Haha. I once ran a boat built in Argentina. The electrics were a bloody nightmare. the system was 12, 24, 36, 110, 220v all mixed together. Stupid!

This wouldn't be from a brand that liked to use 12-14 fuel tanks all linked together to make 2 or 3 tanks would it? LOLOLOL

They were all aluminum tanks, in between stringers, connected with rubber hose...….and had to wait for them all to equalize etc.....not everything would drain out of them to transfer.....to totally drain the bow you had to be on plane......to totally drain the aft you'd aft to be at hull speed or slower.......so on a 100-105' yacht, you'd have 6 different small aluminum fuel tanks all connected together to make 1 tank, with holes in the stringers for the top and bottom hoses.....could access some tanks, not access others......it was a F'ing MESS of a design. As was the electrical and everything else about the boat......the engine room was laid out pretty well though.

I would love a trawler - one of my favorite designs was by Dick Boon/Vripack - Doggersbank 84 (they have designed longer and shorter models also). I would have Vripack do the design architecture and have Mulder or Van der Valk build it. Both good yards and Vripack is well known. If you want to stick to American - Burger is a good yard and I love their older designs from the 1960-80s. I envy your position. Good Luck.

Although most of the boats I see mentioned here are beautiful a lot are designed more for shall we say a sedate style of cruising. When you're taking about world cruising you need to be ready for whatever you might hit. That leads me to yards with a commercial lineage. One of my all time favorite yachts was Zopilote from Delta. (Picture was borrowed from a previous thread.)

Depends where plans are to cruise. Steel burns a lot of fuel.

Delta unquestionably builds a good boat. Nice to see the pics of Oasis. But I never understood after the sinking of Zop I after hitting an uncharted rock, how BK could build another fiberglass boat.

NY Cap: please clarify what you mean with "steel burns a lot of fuel." What are you basing it on? What are you comparing it to? How much is "a lot?"

Weight.

Of course I remember! A special day. But c'mon, how is looking at yachts in FLL and waterside lunching not a memorable day - regardless of how many times over and over. Never get tired of it! But yes, some days are more special ;-)

So for example, a Cape Horn 63 weighs about a hundred tons and burns 8gph and has a range of approximately 5,000nm with its single Volvo. I can give dozens more examples. Is this what you consider "burns a lot of fuel?" Is whatever fuel economy you're looking for worth giving up the benefits of steel?