Safety First
By Bob Lane
I left PassageMaker Magazine's superb Trawler Fest in Anacortes feeling guilty.
This feeling, rare for me, came not because I failed to boost our industry's economic base by ordering a new boat-and there were plenty of the best to choose from-but because seminars and demonstrations made me realize how little attention is focused on personal safety afloat, both aboard my 42-foot Grand Banks Eur
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A Florida to Texas Delivery
By Mike McMahon
If you buy the trawler of your dreams in another location far away, how do you get the boat back to your own cruising grounds?
Although we have always been diehard sailors, my wife Kathy and I finally decided to sell our Irwin 31 and purchase a trawler after a friend told us "there's a trawler in all our futures." I never forgot that forecast.
In August 2005, I traveled from our home in
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