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Friends: I'm just under a year with my VOLUNTEER and am pleased, pleased, pleased. With her single 80-HP, four-cylinder Lehman, I am still running on the original fill-up of Diesel fuel;* the trade-off, however, is that she is a seven-knot boat rather than an eight-knot boat.* I have yet to go...

Well, I now have two months' time on my Nova Kool R4500 'fridge, and I'm pretty OK with it--not thrilled, but OK. It was the largest unit I could have in the space allotted in my 31- trawler. The freezer takes up more space than I would have liked, so there is limited space for tall bottles and...

I need a marine 'fridge in my 31-foot Taiwan trawler:* the one that was there originally evidently died and the previous owner slid an AC unit into the space.* I am looking at several units.* My current favorite is the Nova Kook R4500, as that seems to have the largest volume, smallest freezer...

DaddyO: Thanks for this. The original steel tanks of this old girl were at least 125 gallons each; I replaced them with 70-gallon aluminum tanks. I am still a bit dubious of the displacement: this boat is very light on her feet and could do with another quarter-ton of ballast, I think... Chris...

Jim: Got them all! Thanks!! How I wish I'd had this two months ago:* we put an 18x16 prop on her and then tweaked it to 18x18 and it is still under-propped;* had I had the brochure back then, which says the original prop was a 20x16, I would have gone with that one. I'm almost embarassed to...

Peter: I quite agree.* My yacht club owns a La Paz 33 that we use as a race-committee signal boat; it is a sedan-style trawler like my Sea Horse.* The saloon has the same components--galley, settee and dinette--but the arrangement in my Sea Horse is much nicer, and the saloon seems larger than...

Jim: Yep, that's exactly the same as my '82 Sea Horse--same galley and saloon arrangement, but a different forward cabin. Thanks for this. I'd love to see the brochure on the Clipper. Chris

I'm sure many of you have been faced with the same issue:* the original sound-insulation tiles in our older trawlers are falling off.* I'd love to hear who has had any luck installing some of the new sound-insulation products on the market.* Did you try adhesive-backed tiles?* Did you use...

I guess I've been doing it all wrong on the all-chain rode of our yacht-club's trawler: I hook the snubber into the rode between the windlass and the roller before releasing the clutch on the windass to ease the tension at the wildcat; only the rode is over the side as the snubber is drawn up...

Friends: I use the traditional snubber line, but saw a mechanical chain stopper--akin to the halyard snubbers used on sailboats--that is mounted on the deck or bowsprit down-rode from the windlass and locks the chain in place.* An intriguing idea.* Does anyone have experience with this (as...

*I note in the photos that your Muir windlass has a capstan drum on top, yet the hawsepipe is built in to the body of the windlass as it is on my Lofrans Progress 1.* What in the dickens is that capstan drum used for?* How do you use it?* I'm gobsmacked.* I am even considering taking this dude...

I have just acquired a 1982 Lien Hwa Sea Horse and wonder about her specs:* the length is given as 31 feet, but I wonder the specified LOA, LWL, draft, displacement and*that sort of thing.* She is fitted with a Lehman four-cylinder 2712E;* I'm curious about the specs on the prop and prop shaft...

Thanks, Rick, for the explanation;* it is exactly what I was looking for. You ask why I feel it necessary to use this?* I don't, but the person responsible for the maintenance and operation of this boat showed it to me and says we should use it every time.* If one were to crack the throttle and...

Turns out the little 31-foot Lien Hwa Sea Horse trawler that I thought was powered by a six-cylinder, 120-hp Lehman is powered a four-cylinder, 80-hp Lehman (my mistake).* I* gather these were very popular in*twin-screw Taiwan trawlers like the CHB34 and as auxiliaries for larger sailboats or...

In a polite attempt to get this string back on topic, I have a couple of questions. Our yacht club owns an old La Paz 33 we use as a race-committee boat; she is powered by a FL120. On the side of the throttle linkage is something someone called a "cold-start button." In operation we lift the...

Wow--lots of ideas and lots of good answers. But here is another question. My little 31-foot trawler spent years hosting liveaboards under previous ownership and never left the dock. When whatever original refrigeration failed (it was at least two-way, as there are both 120VAC and 12VDC...

Thanks for all the feedback. I think I will go with "Plan A." Bioth FF and Marin mention four tanks and a day tank, which seems a wonderful way to go; I may put that into my planning, but it is beyond the scope of my budget. My thoughts were exactly those of El Sea and Daddyo: I don't want to be...

My little 31-foot trawler with her single Lehman carries 300 gallons of fuel in two 150-gallon steel tanks.* The tanks are getting tired and need replacement.** I am considering putting in two smaller tanks--75 gallons each, or half the current capacity--where the old steel tanks are now.* As I...