Trawler - Single Engine vs Twins

[daletournier]

Originally Posted by Pelagic

Hi Dale, yes owned by a French guy.... We were side by side for a couple of years at SBYC.

Boat has a number of nice innovations but the Owner was not that happy with Factory support.

Hey mate, im talking about a blue one called Further.

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[Pelagic]

My mistake.... Don't remember that one

[Group9]

Originally Posted by Cadence

You're right about the wind. I think experience makes a difference. I would marvel at the job some shrimpers with 70+ single screw trawlers would do at docking. I would also marvel at some of the awful attempts made by people with twin screws.

I used to keep my boat in a working harbor full of large single scew shrimp boats. Watching them back those boats into tight slips made me realize just how little skill at the wheel I actually had.