QB
Senior Member
- Joined
- Dec 25, 2011
- Messages
- 228
- Location
- USA and Canada
- Vessel Name
- Skookum Maru
- Vessel Make
- Ed Monk design #1924
Chinook is not a fishboat conversion. She was built to Garden's original plans for a recreational cruiser based on his troller design.
Thanks, Marin, I thought you were saying Chinook was built from the troller plans. So, was the hull shape changed too? I don't see how just making the house longer and putting an aft cabin where the fish hold would be could affect empty stability very much.
And Garden's troller design itself was not "woefully unstable without a load of iced fish."
Well, in the article refugio posted, that is supposedly a quote from Garden himself. Tad Roberts comes to a similar conclusion, and points out that 157 fishing vessels capsized in BC between 1975 and 2005. Though I don't know how many of those were trollers that flipped because of underloading, and I don't know of a database like the NTSB aviation database to search to try to find out. I would like to know. I think PNW salmon trollers are beautiful boats; I just need to do more due diligence before I commit to one as a cruiser.