[PUP] In praise of paravanes...OR twin hulls?

[Robert Phillips]

< WOW! A 140' trawler is an awful lot  of boat for 2 people. Surely 
they must
have a crew. >

Big boats aren't that much harder to handle with two than a small boat, 
just takes a bit more coordination and pre-planning.  My wife and I 
cruise our 60' by ourselves, my 75 year old parents cruised their 60' 
by them selves, I did a salvage with my 80' Dutch fishing trawler where 
a friend and I steamed 150 miles out in the ocean, hooked up to an 
eighty foot derrick barge and towed it home.

The 140' probably worked with a crew of five or six, one person in the 
pilothouse, one "engineer", and the rest for when they were fishing; 
cut out the fishing part and, other than docking, you need about two 
people.  Okay, it would be nice to have a full time cook, which I did 
when I brought my 60' down from Nova Scotia; stood the odd watch, but 
primarily kept us full of good food.

Bob Phillips,
Another Asylum, 60' custom trawler