| One of the best ways to enjoy sailing at low | | | | way, you do not have to antifoul the hull, |
| cost is to get a trailerable sailboat - | | | | there is no danger of osmosis, and much of |
| something you can cruise around in, or race, | | | | the maintenance needed on a boat kept in the |
| yet not have to worry about the wear and tear | | | | water will not be needed. Also, of course, |
| a boat suffers on a mooring. You will also | | | | you will not have to pay any marina fees. The |
| save quite a lot of money in mooring fees. If | | | | alternative is to keep your trailerable |
| you have enough room to keep a sailboat of, | | | | sailboat in the water for the season, and |
| 20-27 feet at home, you should consider a | | | | keep her at home during the winter, where it |
| trailerable sailboat, as this will save you a | | | | is easy to carry out maintenance. A lift keel |
| lot of money. Of course, you need a car that | | | | is ideal for a trailerable sailboat, and you |
| is capable of towing, launching and | | | | will usually find that the trailer is |
| retrieving your boat, and you need a good | | | | designed to fit whatever boat you buy. |
| trailer. For a trailerable sailboat you also | | | | Trimarans or narrow catamarans are also |
| need a launching slip nearby. I recommend a | | | | suitable as trailerable sailboats because |
| 4x4 if you are going to launch the boat every | | | | they have little draft, and so have a low |
| time you sail, although if the slipway is | | | | center of gravity. The make of boat depends |
| well maintained you might get away with a | | | | where you live, but here are some suitable |
| conventional car, but front-wheel drive is | | | | trailerable sailboats: Alberg 22 Balboas Cape |
| not recommended because when the trailer is | | | | Cutter 19 Com-Pac 19 Cornish Crabber 17 |
| loaded and you are on a slope, a lot of | | | | Corribee Enseneda 20 Hartley 16 MacGregor 19 |
| weight is transferred to the back of the car, | | | | and 26 Montgomery 15 and 17 Ranger 26 Red Fox |
| leaving insufficient weight over the driving | | | | 200 Sportina Swift 18. Good sailing! |
| wheels to get good traction on a slippery | | | | |
| surface. With a trailerable sailboat you will | | | | John Hartley, who runs Sail Boat started |
| save a lot of money, so long as you don't | | | | sailing sailing dinghies, but after a day in |
| leave it in the water fror more than a month | | | | a keelboat decided that was his type of |
| at a time. In other words, it is fine to use | | | | sailing boat. He has been sailing cruising |
| your trailerable sailboat for an extended | | | | sailboats for 16 years, first a Bermudan |
| cruising holiday, but it is cheapest to trail | | | | ketch and latterly a junk rig schooner. |
| it to and from home every time you sail. This | | | | |