8 Hidden Costs That Make Retirees Regret Their Trawler

A 1983 Grand Banks 42 is listed right now for just under sixty thousand dollars. The asking price is the smallest check a classic trawler will ever ask you to write. In this video a retired marine surveyor counts down the eight hidden costs that make retirees regret a trawler they loved the day they bought her, and none of them is the repower. You will see what a boatyard really charges once the haul-out is done and the lay days start, why the insurance survey on an older trawler comes with a deadline, what this year's diesel prices do to a cruising budget, and how one Florida city marina raised its slip rates four times in four years. Then the big ones: mild steel fuel tanks under the saloon sole, teak decks over a cored deck, the yard labor rate that arrives the day you stop doing your own work, and the cost every single trawler owner pays on the way out.