Patrick said: "... To say that Nordhavns are the only ones doing it is
incorrect..."
Sad to say, but I suspect that if there were a pie chart, showing boats that
made ocean passages by type, you'd have the tiniest of slivers for trawlers,
and the balance of the pie would be sailboats.
But, I believe this is about to change...
It would be interesting to know the stats, but my guess is that there are
perhaps fifteen hundred passages of over 1,000 miles made each year by boats
under one hundred feet. Of those, my guess would be that only about 50 are
made by trawlers. Where it gets interesting is that I would venture to
further speculate that the total number of passages by sail boats is fairly
static or declining, whereas the number of long-distance trawler passages
each year is rising dramatically.
If this is correct, I would attribute it to the increasing recognition that
trawlers are a reasonably safe and reliable way to travel long distances.
The Nordhavn Rally was an important part of this, in that it attracted
global press to the idea of long-range cruising in trawlers.
-Ken Williams
Nordhavn68.com
Patrick said: "... To say that Nordhavns are the only ones doing it is
incorrect..."
Sad to say, but I suspect that if there were a pie chart, showing boats that
made ocean passages by type, you'd have the tiniest of slivers for trawlers,
and the balance of the pie would be sailboats.
But, I believe this is about to change...
It would be interesting to know the stats, but my guess is that there are
perhaps fifteen hundred passages of over 1,000 miles made each year by boats
under one hundred feet. Of those, my guess would be that only about 50 are
made by trawlers. Where it gets interesting is that I would venture to
further speculate that the total number of passages by sail boats is fairly
static or declining, whereas the number of long-distance trawler passages
each year is rising dramatically.
If this is correct, I would attribute it to the increasing recognition that
trawlers are a reasonably safe and reliable way to travel long distances.
The Nordhavn Rally was an important part of this, in that it attracted
global press to the idea of long-range cruising in trawlers.
-Ken Williams
Nordhavn68.com
