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I too am curious to the answer to the question of Why Replace? I'm headed down to the boat yard in about half an hour to watch a crane lift our Ford Lehman 120 up through a newly cut hole in the fly bridge (got over my heartache by planning to repair it as a skylight flush with the deck). We are...

So far, this forum has been great! Bought a newly refurbed Ford Lehman 120 off our fellow TrawlerForumite Mr Mayon a couple weeks ago and he even delivered it from Washington to Santa Cruz, CA for a great price. Now we are faced with the repowering process. Our mechanic has tasked me with...

Pearls love Chasers! We've slept aboard your 82' (?) submarine chaser every chance we get, thrilled to be on such a big boat after our crowded quarters. But the Chaser maintenance stories are daunting! And we don't have a Skipper Carl to work on it. We sold our 62' steel hull trawler about 5...

Yup yup, it's a Ford Lehman 120 (2715E) single screw. We've been told that the corroded ports on our exhaust manifold are unsalvagable and untenable (I guess letting carbon monoxide into the engine "room" under the salon, isn't advisable, even though most of it probably gets sucked back in to...

Our Sea Scout Ship, "Pearls" is a 38' 1979 Defever trawler, donated to us by a USCG Auxiliarist in Martinez upon his retirement. It has been an excellent training vessel - a clever kid can almost singlehand her. With some horrifying (but reversible) modifications, we can sleep 12 inside. We've...