T Minus 20 days and counting!

[DaveC426913]

Can't wait!

I guess the rest of you who actually use your trailerable Mac as a trailerable Mac don't have to wait for launch day at the club...

[sunshinecoasting]

I dont even know what you are talking about? More information please.

[dthiesmeyer]

I totally understand. May 1st is the day my marina opens. I have several things on my must do list before then and can't wait for the weather to break so I can get started....

[Tomfoolery]

I'm dreading the start of the season, as I found a lot of water in the gear oil in the fall when I winterized the boat, so I'm going to pull the leg off and tear into it. I also found one of the four bolts that holds it on was stripped out when I checked them to see if they were frozen. The shop that surveyed the OB when I bought it, and replaced the water pump while it was there, told me a bolt was stripped but they helicoiled it. It was merely glopped up with white pipe dope and put back in.

So the hunt for the source of water ingress begins, and I have to do something about that stripped bolt. And I have to empty my in-laws' garage and living room of my boat stuff, prep their house for their return from Florida, get their car off the jack stands and replace the battery (today's project), prep my garage for the influx of boat stuff, move the boat and all that boat stuff to my house, transition my own house for summer, and fit all that in between business trips to NYC area in anticipation of some major lifting work we've been designing and building equipment for over the last six months.

Maybe I'll be done by the time the next MMOR rolls around in August.

[Jimmyt]

Pipe dope helicoil... Hard to find good help these days. I really hate having anyone work on my stuff, because it seems everyone cuts corners. No pride in workmanship or doing things right.

Sounds like you've got a full plate (and then some), Tom - hang in there.

Waiting for the marina to open in May? Can't even imagine. FlyboyTR went sailing on Christmas Day down here... Sorry, you probably didn't need to here that...

[DaveC426913]

I dont even know what you are talking about? More information please.

One of the big plusses of a trailerable boat is the freedom to launch when and where you choose.

My is trailered at my club. We don't have a ramp, and I don't have a tow vehicle.

It goes in the water by crane, along with all the rest of the boats. This year, launch day is April 29th.

[yukonbob]

Launched April 4th this year

Did our shakedown 'cruise' this weekend with the newest family member. Friday night was gusting to 40 and as imagined in a boat on the water with a 2yo and a 9mo sleep was precious but not as bad as we were expecting?!? Re-did all the running rigging (black tracer with black canvas looks slick ) got the canvas on (forgot it at home last weekend) and scrubbed the interior top to bottom. Managed to get out on the water today to really run the engine up. Both boys loved it and the oldest spent hours watching the schools of minows in the harbour along with a half dozen harbor seals that came to visit. It was an absurdly warm winter here and the leaves are already out on the coast (2-3 weeks early) We're just hoping we get a summer this year.

[sunshinecoasting]

Thanks for the explanation, I am spoiled, we sail all year round here and I had no idea you guys had launch days. You must hate the wait?

[DaveC426913]

Thanks for the explanation, I am spoiled, we sail all year round here and I had no idea you guys had launch days. You must hate the wait?

Well I hate it but I've learned it's wise.

I've had two boats trashed on mooring in nasty spring storms because I splashed them a little too early.

'course it may be less about bad spring storms than about the fact that the marina I was at was fully exposed to Westerly weather sweeping up the west end of L. Ontario...

I'm in a protected lagoon now.

[dlandersson]

Same here. 1 Apr is the theoretical day the marina opens, but no one but some quasi-professional fishing boats are out that early. For the rest of us, early May is about the first practical time. Quite a few wait until June.

I totally understand. May 1st is the day my marina opens. I have several things on my must do list before then and can't wait for the weather to break so I can get started....

[Catigale]

Thanks for the explanation, I am spoiled, we sail all year round here and I had no idea you guys had launch days. You must hate the wait?

Well, it's different. I've learned to enjoy the break do its real only the last month when we start to itch. Not to mention I get to sail SFO a couple times over winter too.

On the plus side, we don't have spiders that eat your head

[dreamer]

I'm one of those trailer sailors and I launched at Lakeview Promenade this past Sunday afternoon. Perfect weather to see if everything works. Water was like glass for the most part but I still put up the sails to see if I needed to make any repairs. I always like to take it out at least once in April to see if engine is working well. Last fall I didn't do the self-winterizing on the etec so I was a little nervous about potential issues. She started up right away. I ended up putting 2 new deep cycle batteries in the day before. All is good and ready for the season. I ended up going over to Port Credit and docking at Snug Harbour restaurant to meet some friends and several people stopped and asked about the Macgregor and where they can get one. I was the only boat around so it attracted a lot of attention.

[dlandersson]

Heard on the radio, today is "Bridge Day" in Chicago, when the bridges will open every hour for 15 minutes for all the (mostly) sailboats to go down the rivers to the marinas.

I'm one of those trailer sailors and I launched at Lakeview Promenade this past Sunday afternoon. Perfect weather to see if everything works. Water was like glass for the most part but I still put up the sails to see if I needed to make any repairs. I always like to take it out at least once in April to see if engine is working well. Last fall I didn't do the self-winterizing on the etec so I was a little nervous about potential issues. She started up right away. I ended up putting 2 new deep cycle batteries in the day before. All is good and ready for the season. I ended up going over to Port Credit and docking at Snug Harbour restaurant to meet some friends and several people stopped and asked about the Macgregor and where they can get one. I was the only boat around so it attracted a lot of attention.

[DaveC426913]

Heard on the radio, today is "Bridge Day" in Chicago, when the bridges will open every hour for 15 minutes for all the sailboats-that aren't-MacGregors to go down the rivers to the marinas.

Corrected your sentence.

[dlandersson]

Heard on the radio, today is "Bridge Day" in Chicago, when the bridges will open every hour for 15 minutes for all the sailboats-that aren't-MacGregors to go down the rivers to the marinas.

Corrected your sentence.