How to go trailer sailing | Yachting Monthly

Yachting Monthly speaks to Matt Newland of Swallow Yachts for hints and tips about trailer sailing, using the trailable Bay Cruiser 26
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[@SloMo2723]

What a beautiful boat !

[@richgouette]

oh my goodness, THANK YOU for doing this!! I'm looking at trailer sailing, and have been itching to see the basic process of launching, specifically, when there's no dock(pontoon) nearby. Well done sir(s)!!!

[@0mxme1]

Rich Gouette how did it turn out? Updates?

[@cafmdq]

Very very beatiful!

[@superformOG]

great vid.. PLEASE MAKE MORE and bring back Chris Beeson!!

[@stevemilton9304]

nice boat and great tool for beginners to watch

[@BumBahKlat]

Yes! More Chris beeson

[@Lord-DJ]

You've jjust made up my mind. I will save for one more year and get a bigger boat on a swinging moor. I don't want another hernia.

[@MrRourk]

Sharpies are popular for Trailer Sailors. The flat bottom goes on and off the trailer easy. Plus they are fast to sail.

[@DavesGuitarPlanet]

Cool boat and trailer

[@stevenwalker232]

Very educational

[@boatsonwheels17]

An excellent launching and recovery video by Yachting Monthly. Would recommend to all budding trailer sailors!

[@kevinu.k.7042]

Or get a smaller boat ;)

[@karelcuchal9813]

Thnx for infos reg. this smart boat.

[@Firecracker387]

Good video.

[@normanboyes4983]

Noticed the road offence of the trailer carrying a different (and foreign) registration plate to the towing vehicle. Would be handy if the trailer winch could be operated by cordless drill - they have a lot of power these days.👍

[@TrailerYacht]

What a lovely trailer yacht. I am always interested how sailors in other countries handle their trailer yachts, and this is very different to how we do things in Australia. We have a lot of electricity lines near boat ramps down here so be sure to "look up and live". Perhaps a Powerwinch Model 912 (or similar) could be a option for customers? Is the mast carbon? Water ballast is so practical for trailer yachts too. What a great looking yacht - well done Swallow Yachts.

[@sharonbraselton4302]

buy it

[@buzz-es]

Thanks😊

[@akleviathaniii634]

Nice video, well explained, liked the part about reversing down the slipway. I personally back up the trailer a little more into the water and test run the engine (diesel inboard) before letting the boat free... Also meanwhile testing the engine the boat sits almost all submerged in the water and i can check any leaks (shaft, drains, depthfinder...) Regarding lifting the mast, the Polish boatbuilders have an excelent system for that...

[@massoud999]

Cool

[@Helliconia54]

We own/sail a Hartley ts16,the original trailer sailor.towed by average 4 cyl. car and sleeps two in its cabin.loving the life style.Great informative video,Love your yacht.What make is she?

[@Ash-cy7yw]

She is a beautiful boat to be sure. Do you build a keel version?

[@ozskipper]

I just put the light board on the transom of the boat.. Its higher and much easier for following vehicles to see. . Certainly prevents the need for sliding bars etc.

[@Crackandsmoke]

Wow every Yacht video I watch based in the UK looks so wet and dreary. Thank god I live in Australia.

[@cindyreid6404]

Thank God I live in Florida 🌞 I was thinking the same thing.

[@jonathangriffiths2499]

Wusses

[@pascalkaatz188]

ˋMI XB 100´ this trailer comes from Minden in Germany! That is my hometown!

[@torisaengilbert8400]

After years of experience I would never back up my trailer on the green part of the ramp. NEVER EVER. Much too slippery. With a back-wheel drive it's madness. I've seen more than one trailer and car slide into the water. And then the tow truck has to come. BTW Swallow boats are absolutely wonderful and very safe (ballast).

[@zaheer4024]

Forgive my ignorance but why doesn’t this one have a keel? I’m genuinely curious. Does it have something to do with ballast water?

[@kenkindrick4227]

The music repeating incessantly is bothersome.

[@westcorkman1]

Great video, but I wouldn't trust a beautiful boat like that to the little pawl on the winch, many of which are mass produced in China, I would keep an independent line or chain on her in addition to the winch.right to the water and coming back up on recovery also. If the pawl fails gravity takes over and the vessel just runs down the rollers and lands with a crunch on the slip. There are even videos of this on KZbin.

[@faramir_vagabond]

Can you fit it on a shipping container?

[@superwag634]

I owned a 23 foot trailer sailed for a year and half or two and it was far too much work for solo setup and launch. Even with two people, it was a lot of work for an afternoon sail. Now I have a 35 footer in marina for the last 10+ years and I take it out for an hour or two every 2-3 days year round. Trailer sailer is a good concept but not practical for anything above 16-18 feet where you can stand the mast easily and sails are small and loads are light.

[@stephenburnage7687]

I agree. I had a Hunter 26 Trailer Sailor and launch / recovery took well over an hour. I now also have a 34ft in a marina. If I ever went back to trailering, it would be small (like 16ft, as you suggest).

[@superwag634]

@@stephenburnage7687 yep, and all the washing and stowing of sails, not to mention mast lowering and securing for the road at the end of a hot day make you wish you just had a kayak 😂 I guess that’s why hardly any company make trailer sailers any more. They end up costing more than a powerboat per hour once you factor in the lack of regular use. Although the 35 footer in a marina has its problems too. Such as that infernal annual hassle of anti fouling and getting survey done every 5 years for insurance and the ridiculous premium increases every year of over 20% despite never having made a claim in 20+ years as a boat owner.

[@sharonbraselton4302]

35 foiter best icen bad weather

[@DaveWatts_ejectamenta]

Good for in the winter though as the boat can just sit on the trailer instead of costing a fortune on the hard (it should half overall costs, especially if a crane is not needed). That's what I plan, trailer to the summer mooring place, sail it around all summer, then pick up and park up for winter.

[@superwag634]

@@DaveWatts_ejectamenta except storing a boat on a trailer around my area costs more than in a marina berth. And then there are trailer registration costs, a tow vehicle which can legally tow 2+ tonnes of boat and trailer, insurance for that, and on it goes. And moorings are rare in my area, and on top of that, moored boats tend to get things stolen a lot and my insurer charges a lot more when you are moored instead of in a marine pen. You do obviously save on anti fouling or haul out fees, even though most anti fouling tends to fail if left in air too long. Then there are trailer launching fees charged by government which can be fairly expensive every time you launch. I just didn’t see much of a savings and a lot of compromises. We don’t have a cold winter in Australia so you can sail year round. It’s always 15 degrees Celsius or higher in the water around the mainland

[@galutirta4792]

what is the length of the ship

[@ushillbillies]

We have launched and retrieved our MacGregor 26 X at least a 1000 times , we could give you boys some lessons.. Pretty boat though I must say,,

[@ushillbillies]

@@Noscams00,Thank you for inquiring We always use a Dodge 3500 with a Cummins.. we live way in the sticks and work our trucks hard here. My current 2003 pickup has 425000 Km on it..We live in quite a remote place in northern Alberta Canada , the closet sailable lake is a 90 km drive.. we have pilled our 26X up to 4000 km in one trip one way. " Ontario" . I did put another axle to make it a tandem axle trailer ,much easier to handle. We loved our Mac although now we also have a 380 Catalina on Canada's west coast at Gibsons BC..

[@fahadalenezi8616]

name of the sailboat pls ?

[@attiliocapuano2419]

what boat is it

[@gregoryharris1622]

I used to own a MacGregor 26M trailer sailor and launching and loading was such a pain in the ass, it’s not worth owning. Because loading requires raising the dagger board and rudders there’s little hope of steering it straight onto the trailer. If you get a cross wind or current, forget it. I spent too much time rigging the boat to enjoy the day.

[@mikeobrien9829]

Any 26 foot boat is the same, its not just limited to the Macs, We love our Mac but she is a Maxi Trailer sailer and some inconvenience is the price we have to pay for all that interior room, many 25 or 26 foot trailer sailers I sail with don't have standing headroom or anywhere near the internal space. I feel the very basic trailer design is the major problem of loading the Mac.

[@wallyklou8848]

Gregory Harris I had a Leisure 17 twin keel sloop built in England. What a wonderful little yacht! Overbuilt fibreglass. In fact, some German guy crossed the Atlantic with a similar one except, I believe he had the deeper single keel model. I miss it but getting too old for a sail boat😀

[@MrRourk]

The Lugger Rig is surprisingly easy to set up. www.thomassondesign.com/en/catalog/small-boats/sharpie-600

[@johno6861]

I have a trailer yacht and a 12 ft extension for the trailer. I would never trust an suv to pull it with and I’ve seen to many videos of people launching their vehicle at low tide, I always wait for high tide.

[@sharonbraselton4302]

buy hover craft yaght

[@brendanbarker2095]

where is Chris Beeson?

[@oceandrew]

Shame you didn't take the cameraman onboard to give us a glimpse of the cockpit and cabin below deck.

[@tomwilliams8675]

How about the inside? Looked like a nice little day sailor.

[@Grahamsnookphoto]

Tom Williams have a look at swallowyachts.com or grahamsnook.com/360/baycruiser26

[@Josef_R]

Never seen a trailer sailer that required a crew...

[@yannmonnier4291]

U cut some video segment that are worth to be watch!!

[@cindyreid6404]

Yes, too much was just skipped over. The commentary was scary 😂

[@cindyreid6404]

Commentary was scary and way too much of the transitions were just cut out. Only one mention of the beautiful trailerable little yacht.

[@Chris-fo8wp]

Could back the trailer down as you are winching it up, less work....

[@davem5333]

You could explain better if you canned the annoying background music.

[@stuartsutherland7664]

Good video but could do without the annoying background music though.

[@redsnappersadler34]

Nice boat, but talk about a lot of work before you got out! Most of the sailors I know would have a heart attack winching the boat back out of the water.

[@tartantony08]

yep i was thinking the same

[@mitchellsmith4690]

Trailering is the way of life here...this looks just odd

[@staxter6]

Normally watch at x1.5 speed for expedience, had to peg this back to normal as I was concerned Matt would have a heart attack rigging this 26'...

[@GasolineNicenstein]

Put some shoes on. Safety first !!!

[@schoentje62]

nice boat, too much talking instead of showing how to! Shame

[@Pfsif]

Ignore, it was fine.

[@schoentje62]

@@Pfsif ignore you! AH

[@MrSki-mv2kr]

BS, you didn't cover tensioning.

[@whitefields5595]

Good vid ruined by stupid music. Come on YM!

[@emnadgzel]

[@petardopudja4290]

150 000€ za ovaj lavor? Ma idiii bree😂😂😂😂

[@sharonbraselton4302]

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[@gemfaceter]

What a beautiful boat!