your ideal motor sailer

[grady]

It' called a Noelex 30

http://noelex.org.au/review-n30/

I would say Hobie 33

Check Mate!

[Wayne nicol]

from what i read- they dont immerse those trailers- so they must lift the boat with a hoist, and then set it on the trailer- doesnt really make sense though.

[kadet]

I would say Hobie 33

Check Mate!

Yeah that looks real street legal here and easy to store in my front yard NOT!! Plus only 187 built good luck finding one There were 800+ Noelex 30s built in Australia let alone New Zealand.



Only an 8 foot beam and powered by an outboard and designed as an ultra light one class racer NO THANKS..

But defiantly a nice boat

[kadet]

from what i read- they dont immerse those trailers- so they must lift the boat with a hoist, and then set it on the trailer- doesnt really make sense though.

Hobbie or Noelex

Noelex are ramp launched all the time no special hoist needed..

[grady]

from what i read- they dont immerse those trailers- so they must lift the boat with a hoist, and then set it on the trailer- doesnt really make sense though.

Hobbie or Noelex

Noelex are ramp launched all the time no special hoist needed..

Not sure where you got that?

http://www.slideshare.net/scottself589/ ... ce-on-soap

Look at the 3rd page, trailer appears to be in the water? And there is a hoist just next to that ramp. Racers do like to use hoists and a lot of these are raced. That is the thing I like about it is the one design racing aspect. Once you have raced one design, PHRF sucks.

[Catigale]

The plugs for the Hobie 33 were still around a few years ago. If anyone wants to make a couple million building them the y would sell like hot cakes.

For my addition to this thread, I like outboard wells. Instead of a crappy expensive marine engine below decks smelling up,your boat, put a nice 15,HP sail drive in a well.

Need service, just pull it up and take it to the shop.

[kadet]

Yep they are real crappy Run for days on end can power your fridge heat your water etc.. Fuel cost is bugger all last for decades and if properly maintained so oil seals are good smell less than a crappy petrol outboard

But horses for courses, my next trailer sailer will be spending a good few months a year sailing the east coast and top end of OZ might even get brave enough to circumnavigate this little island

[Wayne nicol]

i really like inboards too- easier to maintain, cost effective etc, but at the coast of easy beaching, and easy trailering( unless you go with an inboard/outboard) and space usage down below

[mastreb]

For a light sailboat in the <15hp range, outboards are cheaper than inboards. They're also less maintenance and have no shaft bearing issues. Below 30', I'd go outboard.

I'm really not liking the "sail-drive" I have on my new boat. Requires hauling every year to change the crank-case oil. No way to do it in the water. And the 8" hole in the bottom of the boat is quite worrisome.

What I'd love to see is a system that allows me to somehow easily power both my sailboat and my dingy using the same outboard. No idea how that would work, but I find I tend to never use both at the same time.

[Catigale]

Outboard in well...lift up, change oil, or even re power. A 15 HP could easily over powers small dinghy but too much power is easy to solve. If you are 6 crew up, your dinghy is going to be larger anyway ( notwithstanding the 10 on an Achilles we see on Cape)

Very cool.