by Brian Gilbert

How to Buy, Equip, and Handle Small Cruising Sailboats.

A buyer's guide provides specifications and images of all new trailer sailers on the market, and many popular used models. Emphasis on simple solutions will save the reader much money.

US publication, pb, 272pp, 2009.

By G. Nestor
2008
This comprehensive guide to selecting, caring for, and enjoying a trailerable sailboat willanswer all your questions about fitting out, care of your sails, launching and retrieval, andboat maintenance. Easy-to-understand selection guides help you choose the propersealant/adhesive or antifouling paint. Here you’ll find natural alternatives to commontoxic cleaning agents, as well as a useful guide to cooking in very small spaces. You’lleven learn to make traditional mats from rope while you keep a weather eye on the clouds.
This book is a compendium of 'trailersailingwisdom' that reads like a conversation with a fellow sailor.

Pb. 340pp 6"x9"

by Bruce Smith

Trailer Boats magazine, the leading authority on trailering boats, presents this comprehensive guide to help you gain confidence, develop skill, and avoid boat-ramp and highway mishaps. The book includes easy-to-follow, heavily illustrated instructions on driving, backing, launching, retrieving, and tying down your boat; trailer maintenance; and selecting tow vehicles, hitches, trailers, and towing accessories.

Paperback, 168pp

By Bill McDonald

Guide to launching sites for trailed craft up to 22 feet, on the Channel and Brittany coasts of France, the Loires and Western Rivers. Over 400 sites available to visiting sailors, sea anglers or powercraft user. Each site entry contains info on location and access, type of slipway, nearby facilities, etc.

210x148mm 128pp, paperback

By Diana van der Klugt

All you need to know about slipways for launching small boats - whether power or sail - at over 700 selected sites around the British Coast. Also included are sites on the Norfolk Broads, The English Lake District, some Scottish Lochs and a selection of inland lakes.

Each entry includes information on the type of site and its suitability for particular types of craft and activity.

216x135mm 288pp paperback, 6th edition 2006.