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Apocket cruiser is asailboat designed for recreationalcruising and club racing, under 30 feet (9 m) in length.[1]
Like the similar and usually smallertrailer sailer, they have design features such as light weight and shortballasted retractable shoal draftkeels that allow them to be towed by passenger vehicles.
Being cruisers, they also include amenities that provide the comfort of larger boats, such as acabin, withberths, agalley, ahead, andcockpit.
Properly equipped, these style boats are capable of long offshore passages,[2] as proven by circumnavigatorsEric and Susan Hiscock,Lin and Larry Pardey, andTania Aebi, among others.
The term was coined in the 1970s as fiberglass sailingyacht building took off.[3]