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We are very excited to announce the launching of our new website thetrawlerstore.com.  At this site, you will find new and previously owned boats for sale as well as tips and information on buying and selling a boat in general.  Future plans call for a gear and equipment section aimed at the serious cruiser. While we have been focusing on …

These past 4 years have been pretty bleak for boat builders, brokers, and anyone else involved in the marine industry. The news media is still reporting bleak economic indicators with unemployment remaining high, housing markets depressed and a general lack of confidence in the current direction our country is going in. But…..we are seeing an upturn. Not in orders yet …

Over a year ago, I wrote in another blog that I felt steel was the best construction material for boats that will be cruising offshore.  The tsunami had just occurred a couple of months earlier and they were only projecting that there would be a debris field in the future.  Well now it’s here.  House Floating in the Pacific The …

With fuel prices soaring and no relief in site, thoughts turn to how to make boats more efficient.  By design is one way.  Boats with greater length to beam ratios are more efficient but that efficiency comes at the cost of less living space for a given length.  And if you buy a longer boat (with less beam) to get …

Often, when discussing various specifications for our designs, I will be asked what our A/B ratio is?  (we don’t list it in our specifications)  I then have to explain (or try to explain) why the A/B ratio is a meaningless number.  The problem is many other successful trawler builders tout the A/B ratio of their models and have convinced their …