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(No, this isn't a review, it's a description and some opinions) :-)

Excellent article, Chuck, but I have some dissent to express. While my
wife & I were shopping for a trawler, we looked at several Grand Banks
including a couple of 36DC's. These were dated from the mid-1970s up
through the 1980s.

Frankly, I wouldn't rate the Grand Banks of that era as being contructed
to as high as 'above average' standard. If you look at any other Tawian
built boats of that same era, you'll see many that are demonstrably
superior in many respects... of course, a few that are worse too. The
GB's at least don't have chipboard bulkheads, but they did have tabbing
on one side, of light scrim. The wiring was not sized or run properly,
even by standards of the day. Plumbing sloppy. Now, the visible joinery
in the cabin: superb... eye-popping even, when the boat has been well
cared for.

We bought (and still poudly own) a 1984 Taiwan built trawler of no great
repute... in fact they're all but unheard-of... and quality wise, in
terms of original build, I would stack it up against a Grand Banks built
anywhere between 1976 and 1988.

Talk to a couple of surveyors about Grand Banks.

Regards
Doug King