bfloyd4445
Guru
Good advice. Except a used boat, even well surveyed, may give up its secrets over time as you get to know it, like what I call "the strawberry punnet syndrome", "deeper you go worse it gets". In my case I committed to a major deck reno; had I not the boat would in time have been severely affected.
Life is not a rehearsal, get on and enjoy it.
thanks for the qualification. My experiance has been the same. I tend to buy new cause of the strawberry punnet effect. However, with trawlers i believe that some of the older hulls are as close to bullet proof as one can get and since they don't gp fast whats the point of new? Better to buy an old girl, gut er, then rebuild her to your personnal specs. Thats what i envision for myself. She will have a high tech power plant based upon a diesel electric. Not sure if she will end up a a series or parrellel hybrid or conventional with an electric backup. At this point the conventional with electric back up is most enticeing