TRAILER SAILERS
Corsair 760
If you’re looking for speed and exhilaration
under sail then Corsair Marine’s latest
trailerable trimaran, the Perus-designed
Corsair 760, could be the boat for you.
Superseding the popular 24 and 750,
the 760 offers increased comfort and
sailing performance over its previous
24-footers, achieved chiefly by
redesigning her wave-piercing floats.
These floats now provide considerable
additional buoyancy, resulting in a 15%
improvement to her righting moment, and
they have in turn increased the clearance
between the beams and the water. The
profiles of the new beams offer less
windage and better water deflection too.
Although not exactly voluminous below,
the 760 offers a comfortable cruising
interior with a permanent vee-berth
forward, a compact galley with pop-top for
increased headroom and an optional
dining table supported by the
daggerboard case, which can be lowered
to create a double berth in the saloon and
stowed away when not needed.
On deck there is optional storage space
in the floats, accessible via by hatches,
and netting between the floats and hull to
provide extra relaxing space at anchor.
All sail control lines are led back to the
cockpit, while both jib and mainsail roller
furlers greatly simplifies sail handling.
Like all Corsair trailer-sailers, the 760 can
be folded up quickly (in around 25 minutes)
and easily by one person, as each float is
held in position by just two bolts, fore and
aft. It can even be done on the water. The
resulting load has a towing beam of
2.5m/8ft 2in and a dry weight of around
950kg/2,094lb, allowing it to be towed by
a large saloon car. The bow pulpit also
incorporates a mast support for trailering.
The 760 is also available in a Sport
version, which includes a rotating carbon
wing mast.
Contact Multihull World, 01243 377333,
http://www.multihullworld.co.uk
JUST ABOUT TRAILERABLE
Cornish Crabber 24 MkV
Although the Andrew Wolstenholme-
designed Crabber 24 has a shallow
draught with centreboard and is indeed
‘trailerable’, you wouldn’t want to launch
and recover her every weekend. In fact,
not only does she weigh just over 2
tonnes, meaning a large 4x4 is needed to
tow her, she’d have to be launched using
a crane or hoist once at your destination,
so there’d be little cost saving in the
process. A decent 4-wheel braked trailer
able to cope with the load would also set
you back some £5-6,000 too, so unless
you have somewhere at home to store her
on the trailer there isn’t really much point
in bothering. Besides, the C24 isn’t reallydesigned for rapid rigging and launching,
so you’d likely need the help of yard crew
to step the mast etc.
That said, she’s a great little pocket
cruiser with lovely, traditional gaffer look
and sleek, low-profile cabin top. The rig is
manageable single-handed, and she has
a good turn of speed.
Below, the accommodation is almost
luxurious compared with some boats of
this size, thanks to a U-shaped, four-
person saloon seating arrangement and a
flip-up forward seat back that creates
extra space for single saloon berths whilst
providing a generous double vee-berth.
The open plan layout leaves space for a
separate heads compartment and a
well-appointed galley.
Contact Cornish Crabbers 01208
862666, http://www.cornishcrabbers.co.uk➜Crabber 24 is
manageable
single-handedNetting between centre hull and floats
provides space for relaxation
You’ll need a 4x4 to tow
the weighty Crabber 24Corsair 760