Matt Colie wrote:

Lloyd,

The fact that you find trailerable sailboat an oxymoron is kind of a
suprise.

Not really (for me at least). Most people who shop for trailerables consider size &
performance & probably looks higher on their priority scale than 'trailerability.' The
result isn't surprising, most trailerable sailboats are cumbersome & difficult on land. The
few boats that have been designed to trailer well are easy to rig & launch & retrieve, but
they get rejected out of hand and so they don't command much of the market.

My wife & I cruised several weeks out of each of the past ten years in a trailerable
sailboat. Many of our trips were made in company with a club of others with such boats,
between the inherent design & the awkward practices of most owners, we always had by far
the easiest time trailering. At times we waited on others literally for hours, sometimes I
helped them but had to give this up as some individuals quickly came to regard me as unpaid
coolie labor.



Years ago my father had finally settled into a trailerable, he liked it
even more when we cruised both the Chesapeake and the Bras D'or in the
same season from his mooring in Mystic.

Yep, it's amazing how much cruising ground you can cover in a boat that makes 55mph VMG
dead to windward. We ranged a lot further than our friends with big in-water boats, come to
think of it we havent' yet covered half as much ground ourselves in our trawler. But the
big boats feeds the romantic dream of the 'someday cruise' much better.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King