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Default Trawler, anyone?

On Jan 15, 7:53*pm, (Richard Casady)
wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:04:59 -0800 (PST), wrote:
To be called a trawler a boat needs to have a decent fuel range, close
to 1,000 nautical miles give or take. It is highly unlikely that a
23 knot boat will be anything close to that. Grand Banks seems to
have forgotten their roots.


I forgot to mention ( and you obviously havent read the write-up, my
bad ) but at 8.8 knots, using 7.9 gal per hour.... with a load of 500
gallons....thats a lot of NM. More than your cutoff line, I'll guess.
Twin Diesels. Zeus Pods.
Go read the write-up.


Go do the math: approx 550 mi range. When a thousand is the minimum.

Casady`


I'm ONLY posting that Power Boating Magazine called it a Trawler...go
argue with them.