Upside of Downsizing to a Trailerable Trawler

by Jim Favors, Lisa Favors

Overview

Jim and Lisa Favors continue their boating adventures on their boat Kismet, a Ranger Tugs R27, after downsizing from a 40-foot trawler. They begin this eBook series by sharing their in-depth research before buying their boat while also highlighting the inherent benefits and issues of trailerable boating.

"The first book in this series will cover all aspects of buying a trailerable boat, from the truck, the trailer, to the boat while emphasizing the flexibility of cruising with a trailerable boat. There is a lot of technical information a future 'TugNut' will want to know, such as what requirements are needed in a truck to tow a boat long-distances and what features to look for in a trailer. We shared the specs and options we choose in a trailerable boat and explain why we made each decision"

"Trailerable boating is the wave of the future in boating and a choice more boaters will be making in years to come as it is a far more economical and flexible way to explore the myriad of divergent waterways in the United States and Canada."  – Jim and Lisa Favors

Read more about the Favors cruising adventures on their two popular boating blogs and BoatU.S. Cruising Logs:


trailertrawlerlife.com

favorsgreatloopblog.com

BoatU.S. Cruising Logs:
boatus.com/cruising/kismet/article.asp

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151483292
Publisher:	Favors Ventures, LLC
Publication date:	02/21/2015
Series:	Trailer Trawler Life , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Jim and Lisa Favors are members of AGLCA (America's Great Loop Cruisers' Association) and MTOA (Marine Trawler Owners' Association), two popular national boating clubs. They currently serve on AGLCA's Advisory Council and have been writers for BoatU.S. Cruising Logs for five years. They have authored two other books on boating, When the Water Calls… We Follow (about the Great Loop boating adventure), and Women On Board Cruising (25 women share their experiences of long-distance cruising).

Editorial Reviews

Reading this e-book, I couldn’t help but wonder how many cruisers might be tempted to follow the example set by Jim and Lisa Favors, a couple with thousands of miles of Great Loop cruising experience who, after five years of full-time living aboard, gave up their comfortable 40-foot trawler for a trailerable 27-foot Ranger Tugs.

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A trawler yacht that can be towed over the highway and cruised in many different areas each year, avoiding long passages over water. After all, it’s a whole lot faster and cheaper to cover the distance between, say, Ft. Lauderdale and Halifax or San Diego and Seattle at 60mph, compared to displacement speeds. “One of the beauties of this plan,” the Favors wrote "Is that we’d be able to cut out a lot of long boat travel days by driving to the heart of a spot and dropping the boat into the water.”

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If the idea of a trailerable trawler has appeal and you’d like to know more, the Favors’ e-book is a great place for answers. While making the case for trading a larger boat for a smaller, trailerable one, USDS walks readers through the most important considerations, including what kind of trailerable trawlers make the most sense (and why), a look at highway height and width restrictions for trailering, and what kind of towing vehicle is needed to handle a liveaboard trailerable trawler.

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The Favors see their new boat offering them flexibility, mobility and economy in much larger measures. “Being able to trailer our boat across the country would give us the kind of mobility we didn’t have with our 40-foot trawler,” they write.

They realized living aboard would be more like camping, for example. “We were surprised and happy to find some nicely appointed interiors that offered a level of comfort we could live with and felt would be more than adequate.

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