My wife and I would like to take a break from our landlocked lives and spend 2012 on a cruise of The Great Loop. We have been planning to buy a single engine trawler in the 35 ft to 40 ft range of a 70's or 80's vintage, but wonder if any trawler owners just want a break from boating for a year. Although this will be a good year to buy a trawler, rising fuel costs and uncertainty in the economy may make selling a boat next year a challenge. We don't think that long term ownership is likely for us, so the expense of buying and selling a boat all in one year may be considerable. Perhaps there is a trawler owner out there who might want to live on solid ground for a year? While we try live-aboard boating for a year? If anyone is interested, even slightly, we would like to talk. -- Geoff Dawson Alternative Energy Systems Inc 1700 Neil Creek Road Ashland OR 97520 541-482-1136