@yacht_buoy: She spent her working life dragging nets for shrimp along the Gulf Coast, and now she is being turned into an explorer yacht. This is Jezebelle, an 84-foot steel trawler built in 1977 by Master Marine, a yard with deep roots in Gulf Coast commercial shipbuilding. She started out as a refrigerated shrimp trawler called Master John. She has a 22-foot beam, a 7.6-foot draft and 121 tonnes of steel, so she was built for hard work in every kind of sea. Her single 500hp Cummins KTA-19 M dates from 2014, and her listing quoted an 8-knot cruise and around 12 knots flat out. She carries 12,000 US gallons of fuel and 3,000 gallons of fresh water, which is a serious amount of range for a long-distance trawler yacht. Her conversion is well under way. She already has a bow thruster, a hydraulic windlass, air conditioning, an inverter and a generator, and her bow cabin was reported to be around 85% complete. Her old fish hold, where the catch used to be kept on ice, will become most of her accommodation, and right now it is an open steel shell waiting for its next chapter. She has since found a new owner, and she is a great example of how a working boat can become a liveaboard explorer yacht. My full write-up is in my free explorer yacht newsletter, including how far she could go on a full load of fuel. Link in my bio. Would you take on a conversion project like her? Tell me below. #boattok #yachttok #trawler #explorationyacht #boatconversion

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