{"id":957,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=957"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:09:10","slug":"building-trawler-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/building-trawler-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Trawler in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p>Good Morning Steve: I have a 98 Valiant 42. I&#8217;m selling her and moving to the trawler mode. Most trawlers are just ugly&#8211;too high off the water, too much windage. I&#8217;ve found the Dieselducks designed by George Buehler and built at Seahorse Marine in China. Please look over these and let me know what you think. Here is their website: http:\/\/www.seahorseyachts.com\/ Go to the dieselduck 44 and take a look at them. Please let me know how you feel about steel boats and if the design is sound. I respect your opinion more than anyone out there. Thanks again, Roy <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Hi Roy: I would take extreme care with buying a boat in China, as there is little legal redress in case of a problem. First, I would use a letter of credit for the full contract price, with the exercise of the L\/C based on your acceptance (usually with a surveyor involved). Second, make sure the specifications are detailed, and cover everything you expect and how it is to be accomplished. The price sounds very attractive, so there&#8217;s some room for cleaning up problems, but you want to be sure the basic boat is sound. There&#8217;s a lot of detail on this subject in our Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia towards the back. If you go ahead, let us know how it turns out, and good luck. &#8211; Steve<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Steve: I have a 98 Valiant 42. I&#8217;m selling her and moving to the trawler mode. Most trawlers <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/building-trawler-in-china\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yacht-construction-forum","category-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36174,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/36174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}