Exploring Australian trailer sailers, small craft design, and the history of boats.
Welcome to a growing archive dedicated to Australian trailer sailers, small craft and the history of boats. This site helps sailors understand the strengths and compromises of various boats. This website’s aim is to answer the question: what boat has what?
This website is provided as a free resource courtesy of Australian Trailer Sailers for sailors, researchers, and enthusiasts interested in Australian trailer boats, yachts and their history.
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Pittwater yacht designer Joe Adams set out to bring speed and fun back to weekend sailing when he drew the lines of a missile-like 10-metre racing machine some years...
Around the time Australian Boating editor Peter Webster was writing about the decline of the trailer yacht market in September 1984, Western Australian yacht designer Kim...
Australia’s first all-aluminium trailer sailer, the 6.5 metre Sprite Star gave the fourth division cruisers a thrashing at the 1975 Cockburn Sound Regatta — and...
Builder Jon Simonds of Slipstream has produced one of the nimblest and quickest small trailer yachts to be tested in some time. The design has an interesting background...
Most glamorous trailer sailer yet seen in Australia is the 19 ft 3 in. Nomad by Glascraft, of Brisbane. She sails well and has good accommodation for a family of four...
The Savage Nautilus motor sailer is built for durability rather than performance. Arguably the most robustly constructed trailer-sailer type vessel made in Australia...
At just 5.6 metres overall, the Investigator, designed by Kevin Shepherd, punches well above its weight. Its combination of a shallow fin keel and a swing centreboard...
The Hunter 19 was designed by Oliver Lee in England, where it has been a remarkable success – around 500 boats have been built there. It has even proven itself...
The TS18 and TS21 are larger versions of the established TS14 and TS16. Builder Des Webb estimates home construction costs at $2,000 and $3,000 (1973 prices) respectively...