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Sold to Florida sailor

Sailboat is sold.
Happy sailing to all!

I read somewhere about this method and decided that it's better than extension. What I changed - instead of driving truck slowly backward I added winch with "leash" on the truck, so I could slowly let trailer with boat go on the ramp, very controllable. We really made this sailboat nice, n...

That's how I launched our typhoon on shallow ramp using spare tire for support and winch on the truck.
Easy and smooth launch and retrieval without extension.

I have place, but not health and kids are far from Florida. You are right, trailer was about $2,500 + what my friend made for me in welding shop. I am looking not for the big price but for right captain...

I just want to explain how the bottom looks: I applied ablative bottom paint in 2 layers, red first and green on top, to know how it warned out. So, if you see green, that the top layer and the red - where the green has warned out. And I attached more pictures of the cabins when the boat was in the ...

Sailboat "Typhoon" Weekender on custom built aluminum trailer. Trailer with torsion axle never was in water and has 100 miles on it in 2019. Boat had extensive refit from 2000 we have it, deck support "knees" and compression post under mast, new wood trim, new cushions and so on....