There are few, if any, big technical issues in the forum that relate to the boats. Users who post are satisfied and magazine reviews that I've seen are all positive: SYL produce a range of modern, innovative and well-performing boats - certainly that's my experience with our boat.
However, search through the forum blogs and you'll find a number of threads that aren't nearly so positive about the design, durability or use of the trailers: broken winch posts, misaligned chassis / rollers, difficulty in getting onto the swinging rollers, maybe the need for electric winches, weight, etc.
The "nineteen-eighties" galvanised steel trailer designs and their blog issues contrast unfavourably with the innovative high-quality, lightweight 21st century boats.
As the boats are all trailer-sailers, is it time for a complete re-think of the trailers, to make them as innovative, lightweight, low-draft, well-engineered, easy to use and durable as the boats?
