Displacement vs Actual Wts?

Thanks Petros, that makes sense, I'll investigate the shipping weights.

Thanks for noticing. It did turn out good. I really ought to paint it on principle though. Actually I bought the $300 donor trailer from a gentlemen on one of these sail forums that lived up near Akron. But I've lost contact and can't remember his name. I could have used that trailer as it was (he'd had a real nice restored 26ft displacement cruiser on it), but the axle group was in the wrong place, cobbled up tongue extension (as you can see in the one photo where I'd cut it off), but it gave me something to work with. I ended up with about $1700 in new materials including new steel, springs, hardware, bearings and brakes. I had an extra 6000 lb axle already and borrowed road worthy tires from my tandem flatbed and my neighbor's trailer (with permission) to go to WI and haul the boat home. I rotated the trailer axially 360 degrees using the front end loader. All my welds are 360 degrees and welded on the flat. Only had $800 into the boat and it was ready to sail with a running outboard (eBay). $2500 into it all.

One of the reasons I want to do a different boat is to go full inboard and a hull that will tack better. The buc sails... but leaves something to be desired when tacking into the wind. Unfortunately it was my first sailboat and I didn't know that until after I owned it. But it was good to learn on.

Dave