BTW if it has primarily water ballast I would not take it offshore for my life. Nothing without positive stability (that which does not require user process to achieve) should be considered truly seaworthy in ocean conditions.
Offshore trailerable sailboats
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That's awesome.... do you have a link or more info about that? I'd love to read about the boat-prep that when into that, and what the other competitors were. It's hard to imagine a major corporation funding that kind of stunt today.... too many lawyers around in our litigious society....
Might be a bit out of your way for shopping, but in the late 70's Ray Richards designed a lovely trailerable 26 footer. High bridge deck, thru-bolt overlap hull-to-deck joint, and... positive floatation!
Not too many built as the recession hit the small boat industry in the 80's, but built with quality by Ranger Boats in Kent, WA. Solid hull, hand layup. Lead ballast.
Worth finding, but some searching may be required.
Owner web site: http://www.europa.com/~stargazr/
Happy shopping,
L
Not too many built as the recession hit the small boat industry in the 80's, but built with quality by Ranger Boats in Kent, WA. Solid hull, hand layup. Lead ballast.
Worth finding, but some searching may be required.
Owner web site: http://www.europa.com/~stargazr/
Happy shopping,
L
Trailerable boats tend to be lighter. The capsize ratio is both a meaningless ratio as it depends on weight and beam alone. You can find it for any boat you wish here: http://www.sailingusa.info/cal__capsize.htm
Best to ignore it.
AVS of many good offshore boats is about 125.
Going to Hawaii seems to be a trip many lightly built boats can make. The Hobie 33 comes to mind. Just because some lightly built boats make this particular trip does not make them safe, offshore cruisers. While the old Ventures may be good sailing boats, they are not solid and will not stand up to really heavy weather use. Rudder, rigging, and spars would be major weakness if caught out in serious weather and seas. No way rudder pintels would hold up in a large sea situation where a lot of strain is put on the rudder.
Hunter boats UK, wanted to build a full keel 22ft sailboat, that was a traller sailor. Thing was, due to the size of the draught of the boat, with a full keel, the trailler would have been about seven feet under the water, before the boat floated off, so to get round this, they used a trailler that was almost like a car trailler, then had a launch trolley, with small solid wheels on it, the launch trolley had next to no ground clearance, so when the trolley was on the ground, the keel was only inches off the ground, you would back up to the slip, put the wheels of the trailler into the water, then release the launch trolley, and winch that down off the trailler, and into the sea, it worked very well, but you couldnt use to steep a slip to launch it on, they used that system on the Hunter Sonata at 22 feet, and the Hunter Impala at 28 feet, but, other problem was, complicated trailler and launch trolley, really added to the price of the whole thing.
European build and designed TES 28 Magnam, available in Canada from TES Yacht Canada, has CE "B" category for the swing keel version and can be ordered as CE "A" category as well with fin keel. She is quite wide at almost 10ft and requires fairly inexpensive towing permit (in Canada) - not sure about regulations in US. Draft, min 1'-2" and maximum 4'-7".
Also, North Lakes Yachting in Mississauga carries full line of smaller Delphia models
Also, North Lakes Yachting in Mississauga carries full line of smaller Delphia models
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