trailer sailing
Hello,Last year I trailer sailed a C22. We didn't have a slip or mooring, so each time we wanted to sail it was trailer the launch area, rig, launch, sail, retreive, take down, trailer home.With practice, my wife and I could go from launch area to sailing in about 1 hour. It took the same amount of time for the haul out.To be frank, the launch / retreive stuff took a lot of fun out of sailing. We have 3 young kids, and even with a movie on in the Honda van, they were not happy sitting around for an hour. If you don't have kids to worry about, trailering wouldn't be so difficult.This year we put the boat on a mooring, it was much better. Now, if we have an hour or two free, we can go sailing. We would not do that when trailer sailing. If you have no options, then trailer sailing can work. I don't know anything about the C-18, so I can't help you there. My feeling is that it would not be much different than the C-22. Nothing on the C22 was that hard to do. There are just a certain number of steps to follow, and there is no getting around that. Each time you must (and I'm doing this from memory so bear with with me):Untie the mastwalk them mast aftplace top of mast in crutch and base in mast steprig winch line to forestayuse winch to raise mast (you may be able to skip this step with a C-18)connect back stay and forward lower shroudsdisconnect winch line and connect forestaytension shrouds and staysput on boom and topping lift (we used to leave the main on the boom)connect main halywardcheck all lines are clearput outboard on bracketconnect dock linesuntie trailer tie downsplace fenders on railpull into ramp areadisconnect trailer, connect trailer tongue extensionback into waterfloat boat off, tie to dockpull trailer out, and park carget on boat, start engine, motor away from dockraise sail and have fun.As you can see, there are a lot of things to do regardless of the boat size.good luck,Barry