The phrase "aboard a trawler" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to being on or inside a fishing vessel known as a trawler.
Example: "We spent the weekend aboard a trawler, enjoying the fresh sea air and the thrill of fishing."
Alternatives: "on a trawler" or "inside a trawler".
You can even spend a day aboard a trawler for €45 (£40).
ON A RESTLESS night in April 1970, Lee Jae-geun, one of 27 South Korean fishermen aboard a trawler in the Yellow Sea, awoke from a nightmare.
Over the next year, he filed dramatic eyewitness accounts of the London blitz and the German shelling of Dover; flew with Royal Air Force aviators on missions over the Continent; and patrolled the English Channel aboard a trawler searching for enemy invaders.
My husband and I were aboard Courage, a trawler that offered help to Charlie, whom we know.
Once there, he signed on aboard a salmon trawler.
When he turns up again, in "Polar Star" (1989), he has fled "rehabilitation" in a state psychiatric hospital for anonymity aboard a fishing trawler in the Bering Sea.
Shot entirely aboard a fishing trawler off the Massachusetts coast, largely with small, waterproof digital cameras that were variously tethered to the fishermen, tossed in with their dead or dying catch and plunged into the roiling ocean, the film had its premiere in competition last month at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, where it won the international critics' prize.
Tests occurred off Washington during 2011 aboard a commercial trawler.
Tests were conducted off central Oregon during 2009 and 2010 aboard a midwater trawler.
Tintin and his friend Captain Haddock plan an expedition to the West Indies aboard a fishing trawler, the Sirius, to search for the treasure of the pirate Red Rackham.
We bought a trawler there once.
