Towing a sailboat by bike? Anyone doing it?
I am so frustrated....
I own a small sailboat, and she sits on a trailer in the driveway because I do not own a car.
When I think of storing her at a sailing club for small boats, I am daunted by the inconvenient commutes, with unpleasant and scary sections for cycling. There are other places to launch her much closer to home (one ramp is under two miles away), but the prospect of trying to tow her by bicycle is intimidating, if for no other reason than her five foot beam (width.)
I have thought of buying a kayak instead, but I really would like to live aboard a sailboat eventually, and for now a dinghy is the ideal boat for me to be learning on. Besides I am stubborn, and in an ideal world, I would not use a fossil fuel burning vehicle to transport a wind powered vehicle.
I would like to know if anyone is doing this, and if so how?
Thanks!
I think width would annoy people
My main concern about the width is that I would need to take the entire traffic lane to tow something five feet wide. And while I think I would have the right to do this, I doubt if many motorists would agree. So I have never even started to solve the technical problems.
Gosh, it would sure be cool to tow a sailboat behind my bike! (Though I might be too exhausted to sail by the time I got my boat to the river!)
I think that I read that my boat weighs 310 pounds, and it is 14 feet long. I have no idea of what the trailer weighs.