Trawler/Houseboat

I was visiting a marina here in St Augustine the other day where a friend keeps one of his boats. What should i find as I walked down the dock but a Prigram40.

Brought back a lot of pleasant memories of my love affair with this design, and my efforts to redesign it for a bit more modern production. Alas I am know a land based mortal

Nice group of photos Mountie. Wish I could have talked my Thai wife into the water lifestyle.

Is this boat design marketable in todays market?.....or too small,...or too slow,...or what???

For some reason I never realized there was a separate 'trawler division ' section on this forum.. This morning I did find these discussions of mine here. I'm going to have to read back thru a number of the others I may have missed in the past.

One design that caught my attention immediately was this one,..
https://www.yachtforums.com/review/elling-49-e4.22489/

Makes me wonder if this underwater hull shape could be adapted to the Pilgrim vessel ?
(I had already suggested a new hard chine shape in my steel version)

I just did a 'search' for Pilgrim 40 by brian eiland, and did NOT come up with this subject thread? Did I do something wrong, or is the search function on this forum less than adequate?

Anyway I'm glad to have found this conversation, and particularly since I had made a fairly recent contribution to it (that I had forgotten about,...ah, memory in old age).

I sure wish I had gotten this redesign project into production, even after having a bad financial experience with going into producing our Firefly trimaran product,...(I learned some lessons).

I still have a gut feeling that a limited production of this great little canal cruiser/ liveaboard vessel could be a viable project.