The new Trawler boater in this forum

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Hi every Ladys and gentlemen.

I am a passionate boater my whole life. At the moment I have a Nordic Tug trawler type boat and I am cruising the all Baltic Sea and especially in the northern areas, where my nickname NBS = North Baltic sea.

Here the discussions seem active and interesting, so I thought I would join the discussion.

NBs

P.S Sorry my bad English, I hope you will endure it in the future:)

My litle tug
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Welcome and your English seems very good.

Lovely “ship” you have there. More details of that and your journeys would be very interesting!
 
Welcome NBS. A very nice boat. I got very close to buying a 42 some years ago but finally settled for a Trader 42 and then the 54 you see in my avatar. I hope you enjoy the camaraderie of the Forum and the help it can provide. The Baltic is a great cruising area and perfect for us Trawler boaters.
 
NBs said:
Hi every Ladys and gentlemen.

I am a passionate boater my whole life. At the moment I have a Nordic Tug trawler type boat and I am cruising the all Baltic Sea and especially in the northern areas, where my nickname NBS = North Baltic sea.

Here the discussions seem active and interesting, so I thought I would join the discussion.

NBs

P.S Sorry my bad English, I hope you will endure it in the future:)

My litle tug
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I love Nordic Tugs. Welcome to the forum, I have a Swift Trawler 34. The more trawlers the better!
 
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Welcome to the asylum, and no worries for your English.
Whenever you will not understand something, more likely than not it won't be proper English, to start with! :D

As an aside, till some months ago I would have argued that neither your Nordic Tug nor the boats of other fellow forumites who replied so far (Trader, ST) have anything to see with trawler boats, but since I recently left the single digit speed world, I suppose I have no say on this matter anymore... :rolleyes: :D
 
Lovley looking vessel.

I am an 'ex' Trawlerman having parted with our ST34 last year.

I really liked the Nordic Tug we chartered in Florida a few years ago a proper little ship.

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People on the Trawler Forum say that when you see the quality of a Nordic Tug or an American Tug you will never look at a Far Eastern built boat again
 
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Welcome and greetings from Denmark. I love Trawlers and hope to get one one day in the future when i don’t have the need for speed or desire for planening boat anymore.
A few more pictures of your boat will be nice.
 
Thats a really nice boat but an unusual one to see Europe. More pics please inside as well as out
 
When I first saw a Fleming 55 on the front cover of Motor Boats Monthly many, many years ago, I fell in love with the design and her 'small ship looks.' My need for speed just fell away and the Fleming became my target. This was around the year 2000, yet it took a further three years before we bought Play d'eau.

At the time, I began to wonder why there were so few trawlers in Europe. I found Passage Maker (https://www.passagemaker.com/), the USA's equivalent to MBY but for trawlers only, and began reading it, avidly.

Of course, being in love makes everything rosy, and for many years I was saying (preaching more like it!) that one day, trawlers will be as popular as planing boats. Well, maybe that's still a long way off, but just look how their popularity has risen and the different dealerships now firmly based in Europe.

Fleming, Outer Reef, Selene, Nordhavn, and the list goes on...
 
Hi and welcome also on my behalf.

Nordic Tugs are indeed a rare sight on these waters. In fact, I think I've only ever come across one. If my memory serves me right, it was somewhere in the Turku Archipelago maybe a year or two ago. Yours perhaps?

I agree with others, more pictures would be fantastic.
 
We have looked at a couple of Nordic Tugs on the market in the UK and quite like them. Build quality appears to be fairly good and the layout, with a wheelhouse and saloon aft, appeals to us. The engineering fit out in particular looked very tidy.

The thing that has made us hold back is that we really want to do a inland as well as coastal so a flybridge on the trawlers that we like (Nordic Tug, Grand Banks) effectively rules them out due to air draught being too high.

Nordic do a version without flybridge though and we were very tempted....... :)
 
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At the time, I began to wonder why there were so few trawlers in Europe. I found Passage Maker (https://www.passagemaker.com/), the USA's equivalent to MBY but for trawlers only, and began reading it, avidly.
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I subscribe to PassageMaker myself too. Its a good read most of the time but a bit variable in quantity and quality

Yes the popularity of trawler yachts has taken off to some extent in Europe but I think there is still a lot of resistance to the traditional styling of these boats. IMHO a bigger market here is the faux-trawler yacht market which includes boats like the Swift Trawler, Magellano, Absolute Navetta etc etc the modern styling of which I think suits the European market better. Btw I'm not suggesting that these boats are as seaworthy as a traditional trawler yacht but, generally, they are a bit more seaworthy than the average planing boat. In a sense this market is similar to the SUV market. Some people do want a SUV with genuine offroad capability but most are happy with a SUV which just looks like it has offroad capability
 
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Really? So Nordic Tug is better built than Fleming, Nordhavn and so on? Wow.
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Oh dear. I didn’t mean to upset you Piers. I'm just relaying what i read on the trawler forum, i think it was the quality of the joinery that was being referred to.:)
 
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