Musard 29 - a future for big trailerable boats?

[Daydream believer]

Is the E- boat wider than the max, but mounted in the trailer at an angle to the horizontal to solve the issue.
And why do most videos of French performance boats always show them down wind. Do they not realise that to us east coast UK sailors ALWAYS have to sail up wind at weekends. Down wind is reserved for week days when younger sailors with families are at work
Then one might ask why we are bothering with this when there is the Anderson 22. Supremely fast, roomy, seaworthy trailerable,( behind a Volvo 240) etc etc etc. Or so we used to be told by a certain forumite- Oh how I miss his interventions.

 

[Frogmogman]

Then one might ask why we are bothering with this when there is the Anderson 22. Supremely fast, roomy, seaworthy trailerable,( behind a Volvo 240) etc etc etc. Or so we used to be told by a certain forumite- Oh how I miss his interventions.

Rupert Holmes has penned an article in the latest PBO entitled “Small boats, big cruising - cruisers under 25ft”.

You’ll be astonished (as I was) to know that there was no mention of the redoubtable Anderson 22.

FWIW, the beam of the E boat is 2.77m

 

[Daydream believer]

FWIW, the beam of the E boat is 2.77m

In which case it IS within the 2.900 limit.
#Edit Mistake -- see later post 2.900 is abnormal load width. Normal dimension is 2.55 limit

 

[Frogmogman]

In which case it IS within the 2.900 limit.

Except the limit is 2.54m

 

[westernman]

Then one might ask why we are bothering with this when there is the Anderson 22. Supremely fast, roomy, seaworthy trailerable,( behind a Volvo 240) etc etc etc. Or so we used to be told by a certain forumite- Oh how I miss his interventions.

Supremely fast only when being towed by said Volvo.

 

[Daydream believer]

Supremely fast only when being towed by said Volvo.

Are you sure? I seem to recall Seajet claimed it towed his Volvo
Or was it a Jump Jet?

 

[Daydream believer]

Except the limit is 2.54m

Apologies. I stand corrected. I was looking at abnormal load width.
So that means that an E boat is too wide in normal horizontal mode to tow on the road & would have to be tilted for towing as I originally suggested.

 

[DownWest]

Except the limit is 2.54m

Think you will find there is an allowance for overhang of the boat beyond the trailer width of 2.54 mt. Can't, at the mo., remember the source. 100mm a side?

Bloke bought his 10ft wide cat boat here from Germany. All he needed was a mate with a car in front with the (rented) wide load roof rack signs and lights

 

[mrming]

There’s been one of these on the hard in our marina for a few weeks. I think it looks pretty smart for a larger trailable yacht: BayCruiser 26 | Swallow Yachts

 

[Daydream believer]

Think you will find there is an allowance for overhang of the boat beyond the trailer width of 2.54 mt. Can't, at the mo., remember the source. 100mm a side?

Bloke bought his 10ft wide cat boat here from Germany. All he needed was a mate with a car in front with the (rented) wide load roof rack signs and lights

Judging by some of the tractor loads currently blocking our lanes, one only has to stick a bale of hay on top & one can go as wide as one wants.

 

[DownWest]

Judging by some of the tractor loads currently blocking our lanes, one only has to stick a bale of hay on top & one can go as wide as one wants.

Ag stuff is different, esp here in France, where they have political clout..

 

[DownWest]

BTW, some of you are a bit nasty about Andy and his enthusiasm for the A22 . Not surprised that he pulled out of here.

 

[JumbleDuck]

I spent a while unsuccessfully trying to find out if there is an exception to the usual trailer width rules for "single indivisible loads". There is for length, which is why both my current Drascombe Longboat trailer and my former glider trailer are legal, despite both being well over the normal length limit.

 

[Daydream believer]

BTW, some of you are a bit nasty about Andy and his enthusiasm for the A22 . Not surprised that he pulled out of here.

To be honest, some of his - shall we say- "contraversial" views about a number of things did leave himself open for "comment".
But I do not believe any one was particularly nasty.

 

[DownWest]

I spent a while unsuccessfully trying to find out if there is an exception to the usual trailer width rules for "single indivisible loads". There is for length, which is why both my current Drascombe Longboat trailer and my former glider trailer are legal, despite both being well over the normal length limit.

Hah!
I decided not to ask the GNR in Portugal about trailing a 50ft mast for a friend, so did it at daybreak on a Sunday morning. Strapped the little box trailer half way down and screwed a hitch to the heal. Lead and chase cars on the back route, only took out a 'keep left' road bollard.

 

[DownWest]

Hah!
I decided not to ask the GNR in Portugal about trailing a 50ft mast for a friend, so did it at daybreak on a Sunday morning. Strapped the little box trailer half way down and screwed a hitch to the heal. Lead and chase cars on the back route, only took out a 'keep left' road bollard.

To be honest, some of his - shall we say- "contraversial" views about a number of things did leave himself open for "comment".
But I do not believe any one was particularly nasty.

Maybe.. but the comments in this thread are a bit 'schoolboy'.
Think he had retire early due to stress and other health probs. Not a lot of leeway given.