Bajansailor
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Forgot to include the lovely Cape Dory built on the lobster hull design: not exactly a dory as we would think of them.
The Cape Dory folk originally built small sailboats, with the first being a 10' dinghy, hence maybe this is where the Dory part of their name came from (?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Dory_Yachts
Re the nice Cape Dory mobo in your photos, I saw a very similar boat in Bermuda 6 years ago :
And re the New England lobster boats, here are a few photos of a very typical example that found its way to Barbados, where she is now engaged in commercial deep sea fishing rather than lobstering. Her owner was telling me that he drove her down here from Maine via Bermuda, taking about 9 days non-stop from Bermuda to Barbados, approx 1,300 miles.
Getting back to the title in the OP re outboard powered trawlers, I suppose you could say that this is one, as she has O/B's and has displacement hulls - however because her L/B ratio on the waterline is about 15 (rather than the usual for monohulls which is around 3), she can still do over 20 knots in displacement mode with 2 x 150 hp, for a length overall of 15 m.
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here in the uk even big 80' planing boats like Fairline have steps between the helm and cockpit; how do you get to the helm without tripping over when you're a bit tipsy? 
