CharlieO.
Guru
- Joined
- Sep 21, 2020
- Messages
- 1,795
- Location
- Lake Champlain Vermont, USA
- Vessel Name
- Luna C.
- Vessel Make
- 1977 Marine Trader 34DC
I know a lot of people, including myself, wonder how the new posters made out after their initial post about wanting to jump into the trawler life.
My first post:
https://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s53/we-have-made-decision-53413.html
Now for our updated plan.
Due to the unpredictable twist and turns of life, it looks like we will be starting out on the east coast. It looks like we won't need to sell our house to help fund our boat purchase, and with that we can buy a boat on the east coast while still working and living in Vermont, and be able to gain experience running the boat and maintaining/upgrading it over the course of a couple years. We've starting our boat shopping but since now we don't feel rushed we feel like we can be a little bit more discerning regarding the boats we look at. When we do decide to sell the house we could set course south or sell the boat and go to the PNW/Alaska.
We are currently looking at boats and dockage in the Hudson River/canals or the northeast shoreline maybe Maine to Connecticut. Being that we live in southern Vermont the best places for quickest access would be around Troy Ny about 40 minutes, but could go up or down river for moorage. Lake Champlain about 90 minutes and if we went straight east we could hit Hampton Beach and a lot of other coastal areas in about 3 hrs (all by car). We also have family that live on Cape Cod, my son really wants to live on the boat at Cape Cod for a summer.
We do have a trip in July to the Oregon/Washington coast and will also be looking at boats and Marinas while there to see if anything catches us.
I still look forward to all the knowledge I am able to garner from the folks on this forum.
BTW looking for a budget 36' - 46ish diesel trawler.
Thanks.
My first post:
https://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s53/we-have-made-decision-53413.html
Now for our updated plan.
Due to the unpredictable twist and turns of life, it looks like we will be starting out on the east coast. It looks like we won't need to sell our house to help fund our boat purchase, and with that we can buy a boat on the east coast while still working and living in Vermont, and be able to gain experience running the boat and maintaining/upgrading it over the course of a couple years. We've starting our boat shopping but since now we don't feel rushed we feel like we can be a little bit more discerning regarding the boats we look at. When we do decide to sell the house we could set course south or sell the boat and go to the PNW/Alaska.
We are currently looking at boats and dockage in the Hudson River/canals or the northeast shoreline maybe Maine to Connecticut. Being that we live in southern Vermont the best places for quickest access would be around Troy Ny about 40 minutes, but could go up or down river for moorage. Lake Champlain about 90 minutes and if we went straight east we could hit Hampton Beach and a lot of other coastal areas in about 3 hrs (all by car). We also have family that live on Cape Cod, my son really wants to live on the boat at Cape Cod for a summer.
We do have a trip in July to the Oregon/Washington coast and will also be looking at boats and Marinas while there to see if anything catches us.
I still look forward to all the knowledge I am able to garner from the folks on this forum.
BTW looking for a budget 36' - 46ish diesel trawler.
Thanks.