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Fleming called them "Taiwan Turkeys" quite a lot but I notice that name never stuck:rofl:

Just finishing Tony Fleming's memoir. Great book although the first third is unrelated to boating and I found that part a little boring. Interestingly, when he talks about his 20+ years at Grand Banks he never refers to any of his boats as trawlers, never uses the term at all from what I can...

For the last 5 or so years I have been quietly petitioning my wife to consider a trawler retirement. Its received a pretty lukewarm reception. We love the ocean. We love boats. We love to travel. But I just couldn't make progress. Earlier in the week our financial guy suggested we start...

Thank-you so much for sharing. Great story!!

I know a number of people who leave their sailboats in the Caribbean year round and then fly down for weeks at a time to go sailing. They tell me that depending on the location its about 75% cheaper than leaving their boats in the Bahamas. These are sizable sailboats in the 40 to 50 foot...

Its funny, that boat convinced my wife that retirement on a boat was a possibility. Previously, I had been thinking sailboats and she didn't think it was feasible to live on one long term. We saw a listing for a SeaSpirit 60, toured the boat and she said "this is the kind of boat I could live...

I'm looking at jumping from 20something foot lake boats to a 50ish foot Kadey Krogen. I figured my biggest hurdle (besides the price!) would be insurance. I've had several conversations about it though and it seems like I won't have a problem getting insurance but I will be required to have a...

Hey Newt - Looks like you are a neighbor! I'm over on a lake in NH. Over the last couple of years I've been thinking about a lot of the same questions you are asking. And funny, I'm a finance guy but worry that my boat chops aren't up to snuff. I've been thinking about boats like the...

Sounds awesome! I am so excited to live vicariously through your adventure! I hope you post often. Ever since you first posted I've been reading Domino's blog and everything else I can find about long range cats. She sounds absolutely amazing! Congrats.

Thanks so much for sharing Bill. I absolutely love the lines and salty looks of your newest boat! And I've always loved your taste in trawlers so your acquisition of a cat has really gotten me thinking. I've spent a good portion of my sunday morning reading Domino's blog. It makes me wish...

In my 20s I spent a lot of time doing pub crawls on a Duffy in Newport Harbor. Absolutely outstanding time. If you've already bought into the "go slow" trawler mentality then I think you will love it

Morning All - I'm obsessed with Kadey Krogen. Given that there aren't boat shows etc going on I'm daydreaming online a lot. I notice that there are lots of youtuber & broker videos of Nordhavns, selenes etc but not very many and not many recent videos showing KKs. Is this because there are...

I really like this old Nordhavn. What great lines! https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1997/nordhavn-46-3712617/

Thought I'd share this article from Barrons. I copied and pasted it below in case you don't subscribe...

Thanks again for all the insights everyone. It really is very helpful. I was just listening to the 3rd Passagemaker podcast about the weather. They make it sound like avoiding hurricane's is as easy as hiring a weather coach and listening to what they say. Any truth to that? It seems a...

Thanks everyone! This is all incredibly helpful information. Since you asked for details, Option A would be a smaller boat (say 30 or 40 feet) left in either Florida or the Bahamas and used for a couple of weeks at a time totaling 16 to 24 weeks a year. We keep a house in NH and perhaps a...

How much of a concern are hurricanes to east coast boaters? We live in the mountains of NH so they aren't currently on our radar. As we think about our plans though we will likely be cruising from New England to the Bahamas from late sept to November. Should a hurricane hit, we won't...

I've been looking at versions of trawler schools for the last year or two. With COVID and life in general though it can be hard to escape work and the kids for 3 or 4 days. It got me thinking about the possibility of finding a decent teacher in the Maine/NH area and booking a series of 1 or 2...

Raising a son (who is incredibly smart while also shocking dumb) has made me think stupid may have a high correlation with Y chromosomes! We've got several friends who have or had places in the Abacos. We went to Exuma last year and everyone in the family loved it so much we started looking at...

That's the smart thing to do. But when I read Pete Meisinger's truly helpful string I thought "life is short - do I really need to be smart? (my wife would suggest I'm not capable of smart so I should stop trying).

Thanks Menzies - that's helpful. There most certainly are a lot of variables and I suspect every trip will be quite different. Now that things are stabilizing somewhat from COVID I'm doing a little soul searching. If its roughly 30 days without stops I suspect we'd more likely be 45 to...

In a full displacement trawler (lets say a Kadey Krogen 52) how long should it reasonably take to get from say the Abacos to Cape Cod? Ideally, I will get to the point in life where it takes as long as I want it to take. But I'm not there yet. I also don't want it to be straight shot, no...

Fun Video - I went to Bill's blogsite afterwards and noticed that they have a 4 part series on the cost of cruising. Might give you some interesting insights as to costs. https://www.followingseas.media/blog/2018/11/6/the-cost-of-cruising-part-1

Wish I could figure out how to pull a pic off the listing page. Gorgeous boat. https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1969/cammenga-de-vries-steel-motor-yacht-3619998/

I live in the frozen north and keep all of our garages heated. Especially at work where I have a couple of dozen ambulances that by law need to be kept at no less than 50 degrees despite going in and out of the garage all day long. I had an energy audit done a few years ago and by far the...