1979, 49' Marine Trader Pilothouse

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I have seen a few listings of these for sale. Does anybody have thoughts on them ?
We are looking at one with Ford Lehman's, and of course after a full survey.
I would expect some water intrusion at the hatches and windows, electrical issues with a 35 yr old boat.
We are live aboards in Ct, but cruise every weekend.
 
Many of the Taiwanese hulls of that vintage eventually suffered leakage through the teak walk around decks and corresponding corrosion of iron fuel tanks.
 
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Originally posted by 32carv

Iron fuel tanks?

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I'm pretty sure timeout is correct about that. A lot of boats built in Taiwan during that time period had iron tanks and most developed problems after 20-25 years and have to be replaced, usually for lots of $$$.
 
If you post these questions on the Trawler Forum you will get a large response of good feedback form folks who have known and own these boats.
Alternately you can google "49 Marine trader Piltothouse , trawler forum' And see what comes up.
 
Bazinga, that is the boat.
Wow, what a great find. Thanks for passing it on to us.
I have googled the boat many times and never found this link. The current boat name is Perfect Balance, the previous boat name was "Skin walker" and I found some stuff under that name.
Again, thanks a bunch
 
This model was at the NY boatshow when it was still at Columbus Circle. It sucked me into the need for a real boat so I moved up from a 19 foot cuddy cabin to something a lot bigger. And it ain't over yet.

Composting toilets need frequent feeding so the bacteria don't die off. If you're not on the boat weekly, at least, it would work well.
 
"Composting toilets?
Not me"

Yes - agreed, and from the full description of that boat and the survey I believe the entire boat is composting.
You might say that the original listing was pretty much compost as well , that is until a knowledgeable surveyor weighed in and folks on TF called the listing agent out on the description vs the reality.
 
I had a 1979 32 foot double cabin Marine Trader and the fuel tanks were carbon steel (which will rust if subject to water) not iron. I doubt that iron fuel tanks were used on any of these boats.
Mine had teak decks over fiberglass (maybe wood below) but the cabin sides were fiberglass over wood. I did have leakage at the windows but never on the decks. The older boats had less fiberglass and it is possible that the larger boats had less fiberglass in 1979.
 
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