Talk:Recreational trawler

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I suggest a few changes to this page, starting with the name.

May want to change "Cruising Trawler" to "Recreational Trawler," which is a better description for these types of boats. Not all trawler owners "cruise," which connotes long-term voyages (several weeks or more. Many -- perhaps most – trawler owners just make day trips or weekend trips.

I also suggest changing the picture. A Nordic Tug is a fine boat, similar to a trawler and admired by most trawler owners. But it is a production boat that mirrors a tug. Boats such as a Grand Banks 42, a Mainship 400 Trawler or a Nordhavn might be better examples.

I suggest the following changes to the entry, in the interest of modernization:

A Trawler is a type of recreational powerboat and is so named because it looks similar to a commercial fishing trawler. Like a commercial fishing vessel, a cruising trawler has most recreational trawlers have a displacement hull and a raised pilothouse. the pilothouse is raised. The engine and mechanical room is under the main cabin and can be quite large. Usually trawlers have a single engine and a large fuel capacity, though most are slow, topping out at 8-9 knots. Many modern production boats now use semi-displacement hulls and twin engines to increase speed. The general design of trawlers is quite seaworthy.

Combined with the efficiency of a displacement hull, Single-engine, displacement-hull trawlers generally can go far before needing to be refueled and can be home for between 2 to 8 persons for many days and can be a permanent home.

Trawlers generally range in size from 30 to 70 feet.

--TheMadMariner 00:15, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Single source template applied to the article

The article cites a single source, but the article's contents is all in one: solid, concise and pretty exhaustive (addresses all types of trrawlers I know off), so the source used also seems to be good (didn't look into it now).

The problem is, that news sources (nautical magazines etc.) about trawlers are usually not exhaustive, but mostly writing about what is new, and address only one or some types, and even that with partial info. Sources addressing this subject systematically are both rarer and harder to find.

I think additional references would be welcome by somebody that already knows about then, but are not urgently needed in a way, that an immediate systenatic search for them is necessary. Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 08:12, 2 May 2023 (UTC)