dark harbor 17 1/2 trailerable?

[langdale]

Is a dark harbor 17 trailerable?

[jollymon]

With a bit of innovation (extend-able tongues, etc) just about anything within reason is trailer-able. I've trailered 25 ft fixed keel sailboats, and have seen many more up to and including 30 footers. Ramp selection is obviously critical, but it is do-able.

[Dave Gray]

Is a dark harbor 17 trailerable?
Nope. Or perhaps I should say, very difficult. You have that long keel so you need a custom trailer. This means you probably need it lifted to get it in the water. Then you have to step the mast.

I used to dream about this too but practicality smacked me in the face.

[TimH]

Plus it would not be good for the hull. Do you have one?

[langdale]

No but I am thinking of building the 17 or the 20

[Thorne]

Please define "trailerable". It can mean many things...

If you mean keeping it on a trailer and dry-sailing it, very few people would consider a boat with this size keel and mast suitable. Keeping it at a yard and sling-launching it would work, but I bet that 90% of these boats are treated like larger keelboats -- stored on the hard in the winter and launched once in the Spring, pulled out in the Fall.

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