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marke View Drop Down
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    Posted: 19 Aug 22 at 11:15am
Take a look at the Swallow Bayraider Expedition or Baycruiser 20/23 - definitely an update on the boats you are considering. Water ballasted, carbon mast, launches without getting the trailer wheels wet, sails really well.

Edited by marke - 19 Aug 22 at 11:16am
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Sam.Spoons View Drop Down
Really should get out more
Really should get out more


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I'm mainly a dinghy sailor but I did own and sail a small keelboat a while ago. I am considering replacing my little used Spice dinghy and my Avon Adventure 4.5m/50HP RHIB with a trailer sailer. I want to dry sail the boat in the same way I use the RHIB but am concerned that the extra weight and draught will make launch and recovery sufficiently difficult to make it a none starter. Does anybody have experience of day sailing a 6-7m lifting keel boat. The boats on the shortlist include First 21.7 or 211, Sun 2000, Cornish Shrimper 19 & Hunter Medina. They displace between about 860kg (Medina) up to about 1250kg (Shrimper and First 21.7) where the RHIB is about 450kg and needs about 50cm to float off the trailer. It may be possible to leave the boat at anchor overnight in a sheltered bay sometimes when the forecast is suitable (insurance permitting) but I would mostly be hauling out after each sail, the mast would stay up for the season. 



Edited by Sam.Spoons - 18 Aug 22 at 3:31pm
Spice 346 "Flat Broke"
Blaze 671 "supersonic soap dish"
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