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Gould 0738
 
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Default CHB Trawlers

If it's not an aft cabin,
most likely its one of the 32' sedans?

Chung Hwa Boat and Chien Hwa Boat
both built "CHB" trawlers for any number of US importers. I recently came
across a list somebody had comiled of 15 or 20 common trade names that these
boats were sold under in the US.
The two companies were kissin cousins,
(or closer), and one name means North Boat Yard and the other name means South
Boat Yard in whatever Chinese dialect they speak on Taiwan.

Just as the US importers were free to call the boats CHB's, Puget Trawlers,
Universals, Island Gypsies, etc etc etc etc etc, there is no reason that some
importer couldn't have arbitrarily renamed the boat commonly sold as a
32-footer a "33". There's nothing more arbitrary than the "nominal" length of a
pleasure craft, with actual LOA often falling 10% one side or the other of the
model designation.

There was a time when the dealer for one boat out of the CHB yard could tell
you about 150 different ways that boat was superior to absolutely indentical
boats being sold under a different trade name on the other side of the lake.

Not to say that all boats out of these two yards were absolutely identical.
Workmanship would be about the same, of course, but there *could* be different
laminate schedules, fittings, and other differences in materials between one
trademark and another.

(Some of the boats originally sold under now defunct trademarks are making the
circuit as "CHB").