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Trailer-sailing

In ‘Trailer-sailing in Cardigan Bay’ (PBO, April 2024) Frank Sibly suggests that the Etap22i ‘is about the largest boat that can be trailed and launched’. Not so: we’ve trailed and launched our Swallow Yachts Bay Cruiser 26 Iris to Spain a several times, as well as lots of other places since we bought it nine years ago, straight from the Swallow Boat yard in Cardigan Bay!

Carol Lawson

Timber club

Welcome to wooden boat ownership Dave Selby (, November 2023). I have always enjoyed your work, more so now. We have had a small fleet here in the USA for the past 30 years. We did up the 1948 Folkboat ourselves,

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