Trailer Sailor Down Under

[They Theirs]

Some Interesting Trailer Sailor Designs from Down Under with some similar Mac Attributes
The Concept: The Airwave 99 is intended to be a fast, easily handled yacht, suitable for short-handed or single-handed sailing, able to maneuver in shallow water,(app.300mm) and to sit on the sand at low tide. It will be trailerable if required, or it can live on a trolley or marina berth in a marina.
Features: Daggerboard style keel, the bottom half of which is 700-850kg of lead.

[MrBarry]

Indeed TT,
They listen very carefully to customer requests. Not only that, but the builder Geoff Reichelt is a terrific bloke and is very active on the australian TSP forum


James

[baldbaby2000]

Looks pretty nice. It's good to be seeing a new generation of boats coming out. I might call it transportable rather than trailerable. It's pretty big and heavy.

Daniel

[Terry]

I have seen this beauty before and drooled over it! Really need to discover final delivery cost to PNW before any serious consideration, but still it may be a contender in my upgrade dreams, length and beam are very desireable attributes.
With a dispacement of 2400kg it is still within the class3-4 towing range albeit I'd need to obtain a permit for towing (easily aquired) but at least I can haul it out from time to time when necessary. It definitely ranks as transportable moreso than trailerable considering the permit requirement but that is okay since I treat my Mac very similarly, it gets transported to the marina slip each season then back home, very little trailering in my boating style.

[Frank C]

WADR, I just don't see any way this boat is competitive with the Mac 26.
> It's probably 7500# on the trailer w/outboard & fuel;
> You sacrifice the Mac's motoring speed;
> It's undoubtedly double the cost?

I'm sure i must have missed something. There's a full standing head and L-shape galley, and it looks to have considerable cockpit laz-stowage. But in spite of a 10' beam and 33' length, I see sparse enhancement to the design's livability, privacy, or interior stowage.

Granting I just skimmed over the photos, I wouldn't sacrifice my Mac's speed, convenient trailering and low-cost for the enhancements I saw.

[bastonjock]

It looks a great boat but its no good for a trailerable in the UK,its too wide,there are restrictions on the width over here and also on mainland europe,Imexus/Odin had a major problem with their trailers being okay for europe but in the UK you had to have a truck rated at 3.5 tons,that kind of whittles down the list to Range rover or hummer

[Lease]

Well, the airwave is meant to fit a very specific market of people who want yacht-like capabilities, with the ability to transport - albeit in most places that means in daylight, with a permit (not to mention a few nervous moments on single carriageways when the big B-Doubles go past).

The company that does them also does what I consider to be just about the best trailer sailer ever designed - the Ross 780. In its current form, the Ross provides full standing headroom, a real shower option, similar sleeping accommodation to the Mac (with a more traditional private fore cabin), and very, very good sailing qualities. Check it out if you are on their site.

Neither of them of course, compete for the same customers as the Mac, but on the scale of desirable, nice yachts, they take some beating.

[albion]

Why is the guy with the Magenta doing the Mac push? Or is he afraid to back into the water. May be that SUV has,nt enough power to pull it out later.I do like the cabin layout in the boat though.

[Gerald Gordon]

I think the trailer has electric brakes.

[Lease]

In point of fact, it is the standard launch method favoured here. Most trailers are of the multi-roller, tilt type. This enables launch and recovery without imersing hubs, brakes, etc. Lots more winching, but most people prefer this to a bunk-style drive on / drive off trailer (except for the inboard ski boat nuts of course).

[Boblee]

Nice looking setup but hardly going to cater to most Mac customers needs.
Will have to make the effort to see one in (real life).
Sailed with a Mackman or Mack 28 for a couple of weeks recently in the Whitsundays and while it definitely doesn't look as sleek as this boat and is not being manufactured now it is definitely closer to the Macgregor concept ie easy portability, easily trailerable and reasonable sailing or motoring characteristics etc.