On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:12:31 -0700, Diamond Dave
wrote:

I'm new to this and maybe I'll never get up to speed, but, isn't a trawler a big
unwieldy fishing boat, why do ya'll refer to a yacht as a trawler?
Really, I don't know.

There are fishing trawlers, and then there are trawler yachts, aka,
"cruising trawlers".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_trawler