I find that it’s primarily of use for docking. It can be used while hanging out in the cockpit but the visibility is restricted to looking forward on starboard side of the boat Bending over for the wheel sucks. I’ve thought of adding a belt drive system to raise the wheel to the proper level to comfortably use. The wheel that is there is mounted low because the back side of the wheel sits in a cabinet. Above the cabinet is a counter top and a cabin heater so that steering wheel could not have been mounted at a reasonable height in that location.

@@AlaskaRog Pretty bad thinking. Hydraulic helms can mount anywhere as the back space is not much. A little console on the cabin bulkhead could easily been done. Here we use the cockpit for trolling and spend long hours back there. Very poor design. Single handed berthing is easy with the second station but you can't be on all fours on the deck when you need to be moving quickly.

@@douglasthompson2740 , at the present time the boat has cable steering so without completely charging the steering system, what you described is not an option. It’s NOT bad thinking, just being realistic and using a boat as it is rather than how it might be. As for spending hours in the cockpit while trolling, I don’t do that.

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​@@sharonbraselton4302I had a migraine reading that...😅

It has a hot water shower in the aft cockpit but it’s “open air.”

I won’t have to worry about being out in 25-30’ waves. That’s pretty easily avoided.

@@AlaskaRog I wouldn't say its easily avoided. you would not believe the number of people that come to the great lakes for vacation and don't understand that they are more akin to inland seas. Then when things start to turn bad, they often don't react in time and... every year someones got a rented sailboat or houseboat stuck up on a sand bar laying on its side, or even upside down after a storm.

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This boat is quite good for coastal cruising. This boat has an Air Head composting toilet and the grey water from the sink and the cockpit shower go overboard.

This is more of a coastal cruiser.

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Yes, I still have the boat. i recently returned from an 800NM trip in Florida and Georgia along the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

I mean, it was probably on a trailer.

@@MesaperProductions I mean, that would still be a good story!

Your comment triggered me to dig around and figure this out, because after watching dozens of videos of boat tours, I too wanted to know why the heck some of these are called "Trawlers"! Well, to sum it up, I THINK it's all *marketing gibberish!* Some descriptions of "Trawlers", really push the envelope, and stretch the definition to fit "pleasure cruising"! One definition says the boat must have "extended living accomodations at anchor", while another deems them to simply LOOK like a trawler! These Googled definitions further contain other outlandish criteria, but I am not going to list all the details, folks can Google further if needed. But, most important, the actual company, "Independent Shipwrights", apparently refers to them, and markets them, as "Trawlers"! I think the owner in this video is simply going with that, as opposed to bragging by embellishment! The boating community is guilty of devising these fancy names and terms as well, like "Pocket trawler", and "Portuguese Bridge", and "Cockpit" (Fantail/Poopdeck/Fishing deck)! Really? LOL Here is another example of semantics, or "splitting hairs", for marketing and/or bragging rights: *_"What is the difference between a boat and a vessel?_* The difference between the vessel and a boat is that the vessel is any floating object (boat, ship, barge, kayak, canoe, raft, etc.) used for the carriage of people or goods, whereas the boat is usually referred to as a smaller vessel. So, every boat is a vessel, but every vessel is not a boat." LOL ;)

@@SoapinTrucker the hull design is why it's a trawler.

Definitely NOT from Georgia. You are right. I had to answer just to confirm that fact.

Sorry for the slow reply. No, the fridge door clears the step and opens fully.

Everything is for sale. Just ask how much.

@@AlaskaRog OK.....................HOW MUCH ???

@@majoroz4876, I would have to get $55,000 for it right now, sitting on the trailer in Maine. After my last 800 mile trip in the boat, it needs an oil/filter change, and there is an exhaust leak in the muffler. It might be something simple, it might require a new muffler. I have not investigated it. The trailer is in great shape, an aluminum I-beam trailer made for a 27’ Ranger tug.

I guess that everything I own is potentially for sale.

Some do have the helm on the starboard side.

Wouldn't that be exciting to get used to though😀