alant
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What are the top 10 Trawler Yachts you would choose, that can give reasonable range (at least down & into Med) in variable weather conditions (not just flat water), that can be handled by just a skipper (& perhaps wife).
Best 10 Trawler Yachts?
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Whitelighter
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I don't know if I've thought about it enough to give my top 10, but I would think Flemming should be on anyone's list.
scubaman
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Would certainly be on mine. Lovely boats.
Seastoke
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We need a budget
stuartwineberg
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Hardy 42, Nordhavn, Elling just as a starter for ten
Fishtigua
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How Trawler or how Yacht do you want to go?
A steel single screw thumper or a nice twin screw that'll move swiftly when called for?
You've got the usual Grand Banks or Marlows or a steely like a Privateer.
http://www.privateeryachts.com/
A steel single screw thumper or a nice twin screw that'll move swiftly when called for?
You've got the usual Grand Banks or Marlows or a steely like a Privateer.
http://www.privateeryachts.com/
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SD - Fleming 55, Aquastar 48, Hardy 50, Grand Banks 52, Marlow 53, Trader 575, Beneteau ST52
D - Nordhavn 55, Defever 52, Linssen 500
D - Nordhavn 55, Defever 52, Linssen 500
longjohnsilver
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Not sure Elling qualifies, and the Hardy is maybe pushing it, both great semi displacement cruisers, but not trawler yachts in my book. Nordhavn should be top of the list, quality through and through. And Fleming , right up there. Our DeFever should be on the list, there's quite a few thousand floating about American waters.
Almost all quality trawler yachts are American designed, most built in the Far East. Passage maker magazine would be the best place to look/research.
rustybarge
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+1
The general consensus is that the Hatteras 48 long range cuiser is the best tracking boat in a quartering or following sea ever made; set a course and the boat will follow it with virtually no input from the helm.
Nigelpickin
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That's a great list, I'd include the Magelano 53 if the op will allow 11.....
MapisM
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'fraid I must disagree. That's (mostly) a wrong list to start with, considering that the OP specifically asks for trawlers - and the Magellano doesn't make it any more appropriate, in this respect.
Btw, I can't believe that Deleted User thought to include a Beneteau in any list which is meant as "best of" anything... :ambivalence:
That said, the OP question ain't an easy one, 'cause the industry doesn't offer many "single-handable" trawlers.
And where to draw that limit is rather subjective, to some extent.
I wouldn't go larger than 60', but there's no right or wrong on this point, of course.
On this basis, I'd go for the following list - in no ranking order, since this wasn't required, as I understand.
Delta Marine 58
Northern Marine 57
Park Isle Marine 57
Krogen 52
Nordhavn 57
Sea Spirit 60
A. F. Theriault 60
Defever 52
Cheoy Lee 55
Vryburg PB 58
paul salliss
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'fraid I must disagree. That's (mostly) a wrong list to start with, considering that the OP specifically asks for trawlers - and the Magellano doesn't make it any more appropriate, in this respect.
Btw, I can't believe that Deleted User thought to include a Beneteau in any list which is meant as "best of" anything... :ambivalence:
That said, the OP question ain't an easy one, 'cause the industry doesn't offer many "single-handable" trawlers.
And where to draw that limit is rather subjective, to some extent.
I wouldn't go larger than 60', but there's no right or wrong on this point, of course.
On this basis, I'd go for the following list - in no ranking order, since this wasn't required, as I understand.
Delta Marine 58
Northern Marine 57
Park Isle Marine 57
Krogen 52
Nordhavn 57
Sea Spirit 60
A. F. Theriault 60
Defever 52
Cheoy Lee 55
Vryburg PB 58
This is a list of " proper trawlers" the previous names mentioned are mostly great boats but not trawlers in my mind
Portofino
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Adagio -For MapisM ---Italian -French ??
http://www.adagio-yachts.fr/toute-la-gamme-adagio-yachts-recreational-trawlers.html
http://www.adagio-yachts.fr/toute-la-gamme-adagio-yachts-recreational-trawlers.html
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Steve Clayton
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The OP asked for trawler yachts capable of getting to Med from UK. You don't need a full-on D hulled boat built for ocean crossing to do that. Of course if you were to say capable of crossing the Atlantic then my list would have been something like yours. The reason I included SD boats was because the OP might like a bit of speed now and then whilst still having the capability to plough through the rough stuff. As for the Beneteau ST, they may be built to a price point but the hulls are reputedly very seakindly and the ST52 would be perfectly capable of making this trip in comfort
Nigelpickin
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'fraid I must disagree. That's (mostly) a wrong list to start with, considering that the OP specifically asks for trawlers - and the Magellano doesn't make it any more appropriate, in this respect.
Btw, I can't believe that Deleted User thought to include a Beneteau in any list which is meant as "best of" anything... :ambivalence:
That said, the OP question ain't an easy one, 'cause the industry doesn't offer many "single-handable" trawlers.
And where to draw that limit is rather subjective, to some extent.
I wouldn't go larger than 60', but there's no right or wrong on this point, of course.
On this basis, I'd go for the following list - in no ranking order, since this wasn't required, as I understand.
Delta Marine 58
Northern Marine 57
Park Isle Marine 57
Krogen 52
Nordhavn 57
Sea Spirit 60
A. F. Theriault 60
Defever 52
Cheoy Lee 55
Vryburg PB 58
Vertical bow, high bulwarks, 2000nm range, designer mast and good sea keeping...oh, and you can fish off the back.
If it looks like a duck.....
MapisM
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Yup, I agree that the requirements expressed by the OP are met by all the boats in your list (though I would rather not cross Biscay on a ST52, but that's me
).Otoh, he also said (and titled the thread!) "Trawler Yachts", a term which still means something, regardless of the totally misleading usage that has been made of it lately in the pleasure boat industry.
Fleming are fine boats indeed, and I would very much like one (if only they weren't overpriced), but they just happen to NOT be trawlers by any stretch of imagination - as also paul salliss pointed out.
In fact, I don't think Tony Fleming ever called his boats "trawlers", and neither hoped to sell his boats by labelling them as something different from what they are.
Which is what Beneteau did - in spades. Btw, I'm aware that they won some motorboat of the year awards in the "trawler yacht" category, by sticking a trawleresque superstructure on a planing hull.
But that's just because the world we live in is weird...
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MapisM
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Is there any proper trawler in Adagio range?
I would have thought that they only build SD hulls - and I would struggle to include them in any "best" list anyway...
Otoh, if your comment is because I didn't include any EU builder (well, aside from one Dutch - let's say no "Med" builders), guilty as charged. But truth be told, I can't think of any, at least not "single-handable".
There are indeed some remarkable trawlers built by Ocea, Darwin Yachts and Terranova for instance, but that's pretty big stuff.
Actually, there's a commercial builder in the Adriatic offering an interesting trawler called CND 52, but afaik they only built one.
And while Cantieri Estensi has been rather successful with their Maine line, they are similar to the Beneteau STs in more ways than one - and only marginally better, imho.
Erik C
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How about a Kadey Krogen 48
PowerYachtBlog
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Is there any proper trawler in Adagio range?
I would have thought that they only build SD hulls - and I would struggle to include them in any "best" list anyway...
Otoh, if your comment is because I didn't include any EU builder (well, aside from one Dutch - let's say no "Med" builders), guilty as charged. But truth be told, I can't think of any, at least not "single-handable".
There are indeed some remarkable trawlers built by Ocea, Darwin Yachts and Terranova for instance, but that's pretty big stuff.
Actually, there's a commercial builder in the Adriatic offering an interesting trawler called CND 52, but afaik they only built one.
And while Cantieri Estensi has been rather successful with their Maine line, they are similar to the Beneteau STs in more ways than one - and only marginally better, imho.
I would consider the Darwin above the rest, even some of the most notable names.
On the other hand they are more tug boat looking then trawler, and start at 90 feet nowadays and cost a lot.
While trawler is used I many times do not understand what they mean by it. Why should it look like a trawler any ways?
That is why it stayed a niche with only a couple of percentage points, cause no one fishes in these boats.
The Magellano and Absolute Navetta are two example where the Explorer crusiers and yachts will look like in the future, as far as European builds of medium sizes (12-24 meters) are concerned.
The others are slowly catching up as well. Very slowly, unfortunate for them while they let Azimut take the cake all alone, and it is a big cake.
Ask them how much 66 and 53 Magellano have they sold this year.
If I want to fish I buy a sportfish IMO, most trawlers even those most revered in Mapis list are not suitable for much fishing if we want to take Trawler literally.
That is why bar none I will always call them Explorer, as longer term navigation and more comfortable for life aboard is the idea they want to present to customers.
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