I wasn't thinking about a car -- thinking beach wheels. But if you use a trailer, weight wouldn't really be quite so much of an issue, because you can winch it onto the trailer (if you can get the trailer deep enough in the water to get the boat started on the rollers).

I haven't sailed on a Getaway, but I think you have to trapeze off the wings, don't you? Might be a little scary and precarious for a 5-year-old. I also don't know how easy a Getaway is to right. Maybe somebody else can say.

If you have a nice, light aluminum trailer and a dolly wheel on the front, you can just unhitch it from the car and roll it by hand into its parking spot, piece of cake, no matter what boat.

Also, we have turned all of our trailers into flatbeds now, 8'6" wide, and it makes it a lot easier to get the boat on and off, because you don't have to worry about keeping the hulls lined up on rollers.

Last edited by Mary; 04/14/08 01:12 PM.