Gday. Hey....if you could pick up something around the same money with a cabin I would seriously consider that instead. Um...we put our trailer sailors up on bricks and a few bits of 4x4 pine in the past in the back yard to either fix trailer or do stuff to boat. It's easy enough to get steel plate cut if you need. The way I sail my hood and the conditions I stupidly go out in sometimes I wouldn't get far without the keel....so I dunno how you would go without a centreboard if you really needed to get home on Sunday arvo in some rough stuff?

Replacing the centreboard is not a big job.
Unless you're really into the Hood 20 or 23 there are much better trailer sailors out there, price wise and launch ability.
And that's coming from somebody who's on his 2nd, and as much as I love them my last.

Lately even good Top Hats have been going for around $8k