Talk:ETAP 24i

Trailerable?
I have the long keel version 1.5m and this is no way trailerable. The 22 or 23 may be as they have lifting keels, but not the 24i which is 8.01m (26.3ft) TOL. HuttonIT (talk) 11:15, 22 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your note on this. On Wikipedia we go with what reliable sources say and the Better Sailing ref cited says The Etap 24i is the boat that will do whatever you want it to. It is small enough to trail, big enough to cruise for a fortnight, and fast enough to win races, the Etap 24i is as versatile as they come ... The Etap seemed to do everything he wanted, so he found a nice-looking fin-keeled example at Hamble, UK, and trailed it back to Weymouth, UK, behind his VW camper van. Trailable though the Etap is, that hasn’t stopped him and his wife from treating her as a fully-fledged cruising yacht ... ‘It’s so useful to have a boat that’s small enough to trail yet big enough for proper cruising,’ says my friend ... Many Etap 24is have the tandem keel. Giving a draught of just 2ft 9in (0.85m), it allows the boat to sneak into shallow water and also to sit lower on the trailer than with the substantially deeper fin ... Although a boat of this size can’t be considered a trailer-sailer, her beam and weight make her trailable behind a suitably robust tow-vehicle. The Sail magazine review similarly says it has an optional shoal-draft tandem keel to make trailering easy. - Ahunt (talk) 12:34, 22 August 2021 (UTC)