IS-25 Trawler Tour

A quick walk around and interior walk through of our 25' Independent Shipwrights trawler.

[@dieselram05]

Love these boats! Top fun guys inspired me to get my Albin 25. Looking forward to seeing your adventures!

[@topfunguy2281]

What a fantastic boat! Great tour too. You are a natural videographer. I’m really looking forward to some cruising adventure videos.

[@billbowls]

Wow! What a nice boat you have. You put a lot of work into it but now you have an almost new boat for a bargain! I suspect you don't quite know yet how good your boat is since you haven't really had a chance to use it much. Over time I keep learning how good my boat is (same model as yours). It keeps surprising me with things I never thought of. Top Fun Guy and I both think we have the perfect boats (not too big and not too small, with anything anyone would need to be out on the water for weeks.) You said it perfectly when you said "big small boat". Congratulations!

[@rk.kretzer1120]

Very nice vessel. Thanks for share. Hugs from Brazil.

[@boatscarsplaces6580]

Great video Rog. Avalon humbles me and its sister, Kittywake. She is clean as a whistle, very inviting and will be a capable Looper. Keep us "in the Loop" as the voyage progresses.

[@capnchip]

VERY nice boat and video!

[@mikedonohue3654]

Love this boat

[@1951RKP]

Good job. Boats are a labor of love. Will be a nice long range economical cruiser.

[@uthermaceanruig5098]

Awesome boat! 👍

[@g7eit]

Amazing boat.

[@todds-n-ends2760]

NIce tour vid! thanks!

[@markcrawford8876]

Thought I had seen it all. but, this is the ultimate 25' and under weekender.

[@jimricco8811]

i love mini trawlers, this is a nice one, im trying to picture it with an upper flybridge!

[@claudgeri1]

Super cool, deserve 10 likes.

[@craigmonteforte1478]

i’ve owned 17 or 18 boats over the years your Vessel is a fine looking and well designed one i actually have the same handheld VHF radio and mine has made it from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida via ICW and over to the Bahamas and back toFlorida and i’ve always been relatively Pleased with its Performance as a Suplemental and Dinghy Radio

[@marcus102361]

Thank you for sharing....how does it do in those Alaskan coastal waters? Is it seaworthy enough to get out to Kodiak? Fun!I lived at mile marker 113.5 of the Glen Hwy.back in the mid 80s.....

[@tony-ce7qp]

nice boat!

[@robbierobinson8887]

Very nice vessel. I admire them at every opportunity. Do the all have the helm on the port side? That would be difficult for me to adjust to.

[@AlaskaRog]

Some do have the helm on the starboard side.

[@guiinkcom]

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

[@user-kc9by9ib2w]

Красивый катер.в какой стране эти катера изготавливают.Благодарю за ответ.

[@jenniferstewarts4851]

wonderful boat, be excellent for the lakes around here though not a fan of the side windows like that for storms. its amazing how many people actully don't take the lakes seriously, then are shocked when a storm rolls in and you get 25-30' waves.

[@AlaskaRog]

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

[@jenniferstewarts4851]

@@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.

[@sharonbraselton4302]

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[@phatmeow7764]

hi i am new to boats so do bear wif my questions ya ^^ would u say a boat like this could do close to coast salt water cross country? i man am not thinking of crossing the atlantic or pacific ocean haha Also it has gray + black tank set up i assume?

[@AlaskaRog]

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.

[@Ceviche956]

I need one

[@yamabiru4553]

Sweet

[@brian.7966]

I don`t know where you get the Trawler name from. it's just a small cabin boat.

[@SoapinTrucker]

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 ;)

[@liveoakgap7489]

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

[@stevecollins1675]

is this boat for sale? Or where can someone get one?

[@AlaskaRog]

Everything is for sale. Just ask how much.

[@majoroz4876]

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

[@AlaskaRog]

@@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.

[@douglasthompson2740]

How do you steer from the cockpit with the wheel down on the deck???

[@AlaskaRog]

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.

[@douglasthompson2740]

@@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.

[@AlaskaRog]

@@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.

[@garyfurlong9487]

Do you still have the boat?

[@AlaskaRog]

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.

[@MesaperProductions]

I *demand* that that boat go "put put put put put put"

[@JohnstonRobare]

Does that cabin step block the fridge door?

[@AlaskaRog]

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

[@landofwaterfalls]

Is this boat for sale ?

[@AlaskaRog]

I guess that everything I own is potentially for sale.

[@mr.berns-yotrii7189]

is this blue water?

[@AlaskaRog]

This is more of a coastal cruiser.

[@sharonbraselton4302]

yes yiu çiukd

[@user-kc9by9ib2w]

СКОЛЬКО СТОИТ БУ ТАКОЙ КАТЕР ? в долларах США.

[@michelrood2966]

My dreamboat..it just misses a shower

[@sharonbraselton4302]

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[@michelrood2966]

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

[@MS-ji6oj]

I buy it

[@francoislepine4698]

How an IS-25 made the trip from central Vancouver Island, where they were built, to GEORGIA would be a good, interesting story!

[@MesaperProductions]

I mean, it was probably on a trailer.

[@francoislepine4698]

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

[@beegkanabis6019]

Please contact me if you are interested in selling. Thank you.

[@charlesdriggers199]

Your not from Georgia are you? Don't answer that, cause I already know.

[@AlaskaRog]

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