Beaverlake
Senior Member
I hope I don’t get bashed - seems to be an assumption by some others that being a Bayliner owner is the equivalent of submitting to a voluntary frontal lobotomy. I beg to differ.
We take care of a Bayliner 4788 based out of Skyline Marina I’m Anacortes Washington (I subscribe to the POV that you don’t own a boat, it kinda sorta owns you). A 4788 is not a trawler by definition, but by our temperaments, running speed, and how we travel it’s a trawler (except when we have to spool up the turbos every so often).
This is our second “new series” Bayliner - the first being a 3988 from 1995-2000. I’ve owned Wellcraft, Pacemaker, Ericsson (my early life detour into sailing), and Tollycraft. Along the way I learned that every experience had some compromise - including this one now that I’m retired.
Yes, I’m still wrestling with a couple small cabin leaks and service access is horrible; an upside for our mechanic who is 5’7”, about 160, old, experienced, wiry, and up for the challenges. But having experienced a significant “oops” with our 3988 I know firsthand that the hull and mechanical systems are more or less bulletproof.
Our boats have not been Marina queens. We ran up almost 200 hours in 2019 cruising the PAC NW islands. This year we’ll probably hit 250 with about 6 weeks extended time out, a guy trip to Barkley Sound on the Pacific side of Vancouver Island, and numerous weekend trips with friends and family. Heck, might push 300 hours. Since 1987 we’ve owned boats for about 15 of the years since we moved here and logged well over 1500 hours in the PAC NW on A Formula, Carvers, Tollycrafts, and Bayliners.
I decided to finally sign on to the Trawler Forum to expand my DIY knowledge base. I hope I can contribute as well.
BR
Gordon
We take care of a Bayliner 4788 based out of Skyline Marina I’m Anacortes Washington (I subscribe to the POV that you don’t own a boat, it kinda sorta owns you). A 4788 is not a trawler by definition, but by our temperaments, running speed, and how we travel it’s a trawler (except when we have to spool up the turbos every so often).
This is our second “new series” Bayliner - the first being a 3988 from 1995-2000. I’ve owned Wellcraft, Pacemaker, Ericsson (my early life detour into sailing), and Tollycraft. Along the way I learned that every experience had some compromise - including this one now that I’m retired.
Yes, I’m still wrestling with a couple small cabin leaks and service access is horrible; an upside for our mechanic who is 5’7”, about 160, old, experienced, wiry, and up for the challenges. But having experienced a significant “oops” with our 3988 I know firsthand that the hull and mechanical systems are more or less bulletproof.
Our boats have not been Marina queens. We ran up almost 200 hours in 2019 cruising the PAC NW islands. This year we’ll probably hit 250 with about 6 weeks extended time out, a guy trip to Barkley Sound on the Pacific side of Vancouver Island, and numerous weekend trips with friends and family. Heck, might push 300 hours. Since 1987 we’ve owned boats for about 15 of the years since we moved here and logged well over 1500 hours in the PAC NW on A Formula, Carvers, Tollycrafts, and Bayliners.
I decided to finally sign on to the Trawler Forum to expand my DIY knowledge base. I hope I can contribute as well.
BR
Gordon