Bearing up well

Being able to easily trail your little boat to new cruising grounds is a great feeling. Many owners of cruising yachts simply don’t get the time to go far from their moorings and their boats become day sailers from the one location. But the trailer-sailer can be taken to new haunts around the coast and to inland lakes and waters that are not accessible to cruising yachts.

I like to book into a good hotel or boarding house and day sail. My wife certainly prefers this to being stuck at an angle on a damp mooring up a muddy creek. Since trailer sailing I have got to know many ports and inland waters. For a working man with just a few weeks holiday each year a fin keel cruising yacht on a marina does not give much opportunity to visit many new places, even if the weather window allows it. So for me you can’t beat a good trailer-sailer.