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We have a 42 FuHwa, 1986. They were building boats in Taiwan in the 70's and 80's and exporting them to the US as Nova Sundeck, or Marine Trader. If you bought them direct from Taiwan as ours was, it stayed registered with that name.

Many of the boats we know as Nova Sundeck, Seahorse, Pacific Trawler were built in the Fu Hwa yard. Ours was imported along with 4 others by the original owner, he sold the other 4 for profit and thus had his boat for free. He kept meticulous maintenance logs, fixed the few window leaks as...

We have a 42 fu haw sundeck 1986. She has twin volvos, this is our third year and we are happy. Sorry for the late reply, haven't been on the forum in awhile.

I feel like our boat is the same, but a 42. Sundeck built in Taiwan 1985 in the Fu Hwa yard, haven't found many differences between the Nova or the PT with our boat, I think they may be built by the same builders

The Sassafrass is a beauty with a happy ending at the harbor at Georgetown. Chester River is totally unspoiled, the Wye is lovely as well.

we are facing the same issues... Heidi our lab was very boat happy, Montana our Anatolian Sheppard rescue not so much.. she quivers in the shower in the aft cabin while under way... happy at the dock but no clue how to get her from the sundeck to the swim platform.

We loved it! Liked the downtown location. Went to Oriental for lunch.

We are planning to spend Nov and Dec in the New Bern area and cruise to SC/Ga area for Jan-March. Hubby is retired airline so we can fly in and out for long weekends etc since I am still working. We winterized in the slip this year and it was a pain, the thought of winter getaway whenever we...

Tim, Which marina are you in? We are coming to new bern Wed-Fri (by land) staying at the doubletree, looking for winterhavens for next year for the boat. If we see you we'll give you a shout.

Our FuHwa Sundeck is so close in design to Forkliftt's sundeck I often wonder if she is from the same yard.

We are thinking of New Bern next winter as an alternative to winterizing and staying in the Chesapeake. We are going to drive down in April and have a look around.

Looks like you are waiting for the bridge to open

Kent Island, MD. An hour and a half from most anywhere in the chesapeake bay.. Baltimore, Annapolis, St Michaels, Tilghman's Island, Oxford, Rock Hall, Chestertown, Chesapeake Beach, Herrington Harbor. Haha the lighthouse is actually Martha's Vineyard, clicked on by mistake and can't figure out...

Cold, with never ending wind here on the Chesapeake

Tilghman Island

We are at a similar dock, we had t shirts made up that say "Trawler Trash", and we actually use the boat for cruising and captain it ourselves : :smitten:

We used Mike and Mary from Paradise Yachts as a buyers broker when we purchased our boat last winter. They were professional, honest and worked hard for us. I would recommend them.

We took a beautiful 10 day fall cruise up the Potomac to D.C. Even tho' I grew up in the DC area the journey was through unknown territory from Kent Narrows. Our itinerary was Solomon's, Colonial Beach, VA, Gangplank Marina in downtown DC, Old Town Alexandria and then back down. We had some...

Install an electroscan (spelling?) in one of the heads

Congratulations, very nice.

Our Fu Hwa is essentially the same boat. 1986 42 w/ twin Volvos, sundeck. She had a cockpit which we did not see on many in our search. She was so well loved and cared for she just gleamed. We enclosed the flybridge but left the sundeck open. We worried about bugs in the summer on the...

dc, love your boat. We have a cockpit, which we love but gave up some space on a 42, never saw a boat yet that mad me say hmmmmmm like yours... love it enjoy

We did our first bare boat from St Thomas USVI thru "trawlers in paradise" on a 46 GB. Not sure if they are still there but we loved the boat and found the VI to be boating for "dummies" with all the moorings and a dinghy. We were hooked.

Absolutely bareboat charter a week somewhere first. We did the Virgin Islands on a Grand Banks but the Chesapeake has some nice options. It gives you some real life chances to see what you like or don't like. In our case it gave us an incurable disease, called "trawlering". We like you...

Sorry to hear about the breakdown, hope it was an easy fix. We have 2 giant idiot dogs so we do marinas for now.