Powerboats

In the Penobscot Bay—Mount Desert Island region in Maine, we discover a thriving boatbuilding community and history that goes back 400 years.

Comfortable, seaworthy and efficient, trawlers are ideal boats for passagemaking. Here are more images of today’s trawlers.

Displacement, semidisplacement and planing hulls all have their pluses and minuses. We compare and contrast them.