arly last summer, I helped an old pal deliver a classic 1980sera Grand Banks 42 several hundred miles up the ICW. Modeled after the proven heavy-displacement trawlers the company had been churning out since the early 1960s—the North Sea profile, molded-in lapstrake hull, rugged twin diesels, top speeds of 8 to 10 knots—it was a stately ride that was neither quick nor flashy, but got the job done. I’d admittedly lost track of how Grand Banks had
