The inaugural West Marine Trawler Fest in Southern California opens today and runs until Saturday at Downtown Marina in Long Beach.
Slips are available for additional boats.
Some 300 people and 30 boats are expected for the all-make rendezvous for people who voyage, cruise and live aboard motorboats, and for people who want to. Trawler Fest features valuable cruising seminars, in-water trawler show, a small shoreside expo, special presentations, and a great time. Circumnavigator Bruce Kessler, cruising guide writers Don and Reanne Douglass just returned from Alaska, Nordhavn's Jim Leishman, Chuck Hawley of West Marine, Bob Smith of American Diesel, Arild Jensen of Xantrex, multihull designer Malcolm Tennant of New Zealand, Dee Kermode on women's issues, and other expert speakers are featured during the extensive seminar program. The new Nordhavn Coastal Pilot 35, the new Sultan 52 LRC, and leading makes such as Mainship, Nordhavn, DeFever, Symbol, Heritage, Ocean Alexander, Eagle, Albin and others in the in-water trawler show. You'll be able to Try a Trawler at Trawler Fest, thanks to Mainship and Nordhavn providing on-water orientation cruises with the Nordhavn 35 Coastal Pilot and a Mainship 34 Pilot.