Naturally, most genuine trailer sailers offer little more than crouching headroom, limited as they are by their overall dimensions. More headroom is often achieved at the expense of sailing performance or awkward movement around on deck. Full headroom in smaller boats also tends to come at the extreme edge of trailerability, often in the domain of swinging stub keel boats like the Beneteau First 25.7 or fixed keel yachts like the MG Spring 25. The MG Spring 25 is technically trailerable, as its draught is a reasonable 91cm due its clever winged keel, but launching and recovery is not really possible without a long strop between your vehicle and the trailer. In practice, owners of these trailerable boats tend to have them craned in and out of the water at the beginning and end of the season. They still reap some of the benefits of trailer sailing but not a 'pop the boat in the water for a day-sail' kind. There are some alternatives though. Older boats like the Dehler 25 offer around 1.6m of headroom and the Feeling 720 a staggering 1.9m. Yet, due to retractable keels they draw very little water (the Dehler only 45cm; the Feeling 75cm). Many standing-headroom yachts are relatively heavy to tow though - of the examples above the Dehler comes out best at 1400kg (after shedding its water ballast) and the Beneteau 25.7 heaviest at 2.2 Tonnes, of which 30% is ballast. What you do get at this displacement level are sturdy, sea-going yachts which you could happily take across the channel. If you don’t mind sacrificing some upper end sailing characteristics then it’s worth also considering the roomy Hunter Legend 260 and the Macgregor 26 range. By the nature of their design, sitting high up in the water, they present more windage and don’t point as high as some of these other examples, but they offer plenty of headroom. Arguably the ‘best in class’, genuine trailer sailer with decent headroom is the Parker 235. Built from 1994 by the doyen of British lift keel yachts, this little boat floats in only 30cm of water and weighs in at a tow friendly 1,380kg, yet offers 1.63cm of headroom. The quirky layout with a huge storage locker accessed forward of the heads in the forepeak is not for everyone but these little boats have something of a cult following. Of the more contemporary boats, the Viko 21 is well worth taking a look at with a surprising amount of headroom down below for such a high performance 21 footer. At 2 Tonnes, the Sedna 26 is at the other end of the displacement range but offers plenty of space and headroom. One way of coping with restricted headroom in smaller boats is by smart hatch design, which can provide valuable extra space. The Hunter Legend 240 does this with a clever hatch which slides right forward and hinges up, offering a large amount of space to move around in when standing. The addition of a narrow canvas pop-up then offers an extension to the cabin space when moored up. Performance-oriented trailer yachts like the Jeanneau Sun 2000 and the Beneteau First 211 also have hinged, rather than sliding, hatches, the Beneteau’s being easier to handle and offering more light.