X or M

[mjgill1]

Thanks for all the help!
Found and am buying a 2012 M with a 60hp honda.. Got it for a great price and am heading out to get it soon.

The whole family is really excited.

[Tomfoolery]

Pictures! We need pictures!!

And congrats.

[adrenaud]

Hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

[NiceAft]

Thanks for all the help!
Found and am buying a 2012 M with a 60hp honda.. Got it for a great price and am heading out to get it soon.

The whole family is really excited.

Now all you need to do is press the "user control panel" on this site, then press “profile”, and fill in the blank spaces. One of us may be close by for some assistance in the future, or the other way around

Ray

[mjgill1]

Thanks for all the help!
Found and am buying a 2012 M with a 60hp honda.. Got it for a great price and am heading out to get it soon.

The whole family is really excited.

Now all you need to do is press the "user control panel" on this site, then press “profile”, and fill in the blank spaces. One of us may be close by for some assistance in the future, or the other way around

Ray

10/4 will do.

[Gazmn]

Congratulations.
Let the pizzas begin

[Bilgemaster]

Thanks for all the help!
Found and am buying a 2012 M with a 60hp honda.. Got it for a great price and am heading out to get it soon.

The whole family is really excited.

Hey, a nice late model 2012 26M with a big beefy super-reliable and barely broken-in Honda dangling off the stern is a great find! Forget what I said earlier about the X here from the cheap seats. You found your boat, and I'm sure you'll grow to love it. And if you ever do act on that hankering to one day flee those corn fields, lakes and rivers and go all "salty blue water trekker" and want to trade up to some bigger deep water live-aboard keel boat cruiser, catamaran or some other craft more purpose-built for knocking around the Caribbean or "wherever", I think it's a pretty sure bet that if you take care of it, your last-of-the-last-of-the-Mac-power-sailers 26M is very likely to hold its value very well indeed. In fact, in a couple-few years or more, with a little decent wax and Armor-All here and there now and then, I imagine she might well sell for a tad more than you got her for, as choice older ones get scarcer and scarcer, most (sadly) through simple neglect.

Macgregor may be history, and Tattoo's future highly doubtful, but there's no denying that the concept of a hybrid power-sailer's a sound and appealing one, no matter what some naysayers may contend (typically never having so much as set foot on one). An increasingly impatient world will surely do its bit to make more flexible-use craft like ours more sought after. If I want or need to get back home, to my next waypoint or out of the path of a squall in a hurry, I'm glad of that big "iron wind" to get me up on plane and on my way in a hurry. I get that whole "sailor's patience" character-building thing: staring hopefully at the slack and lifeless sails or gritting one's teeth indomitably as those black storm clouds inexorably approach as your little inboard Atomic 4 chugs you along at a stately low wake pace, I really do. I also understand those "Polar Bear Swim" nutballs who cut big holes into a frozen lake or river and then plunge on in with nothing but their water wingees. I just don't feel the need to join them in a quick dogpaddle around the ice floes, you know? And I suspect my attitude is not only shared by some freakishly minute niche market--you know, folks who just want to move around well to and in the water and have a comfy cabin to hole up in and a good private place to poop while underway. And the thing is, It seems there are few ready substitutes for a Mac X or M for the type of power-sailing I and my fellow niche market dwellers want to do. Those Polish-built Odins look interesting, but they're not exactly taking America by storm. Even used ones seem to be going for well over 5 times the price I paid for my my 26X of about the same vintage...assuming you could even find one that wasn't moored in some fjord somewhere far far away. The Hunter 27E Edge might do the trick...at least for 4 persons (its stated on board maximum), but then there's the price...to say nothing of the fact that its lines just seem vaguely reminiscent to me of some of the homelier American Motors offerings of the early '70s. Anyhow, I guess this all goes towards explaining why my hunch is that you could almost view your new 26M as an investment property. Supply will only diminish, while demand for the power-sailer breed will likely continue. I'm not saying it'll be like Amphicars, superb "swimming" examples of which you could buy all day long for maybe $5,000 in the mid '90s (I got mine--needing just a bit of work--for $3,200 in '94), that you'd be hard pressed to find for less than $50,000 now, but I wouldn't be too surprised if your 26M. if treated well, outdid a balanced-fund 401(k) dollar for dollar.

It's also a plus that your family's already on board. Lots of folks, myself included, need to bring "the Admiral and crew" around to the idea gingerly. I'm led to understand that first impressions from that very first sail are often key. So, choose wisely, grasshopper. Me? I'm getting lessons and learning all the ropes before they climb aboard. When they do it'll be a cool sunny day with light steady breezes. I might even just roll out the jib and potter around that way for a bit: no rockin', no rollin', no diggin' of the rail or frenzied pleas for Dramamine. And "Ladies and gentlemen, on the Lido Deck we are currently serving a mouthwatering array of favored snacks and treats..."

Speaking of wise choices, if you're trailering your new gal home, and it's more than, say, a hundred miles or so, are we talking about a single-axle Macgregor-built trailer? Original tires? If so, those would be pushing that magic 5 years old mark, and you'd do very well to change 'em. Good trailer tires with wheels are astonishingly cheap for that extra piece of mind.

Congrats and have a safe trip!

[Ixneigh]

That's great. I really like mine. Best of luck with your new adventures!

[NiceAft]

One of the reasons I enjoy this site is because of the varied responses.

Bilge gave us the equivalent of War and Peace, and Ix gave us the CliffsNotes version

Ray

[Bilgemaster]

One of the reasons I enjoy this site is because of the varied responses.

Bilge gave us the equivalent of War and Peace, and Ix gave us the CliffsNotes version

Ray

Yeah. Sorry to submit you to that. A tendency towards near logorrheic verbosity is an occupational hazard for "professional explainers" such as your humble Bilgemaster. "Logorrhea"...marvelous word.

[March]

Bilgemaster wroteȘ
"Logorrhea"...marvelous word.

Pleonasm is an even more marvelouser one

[Bilgemaster]

Bilgemaster wroteȘ
"Logorrhea"...marvelous word.

Pleonasm is an even more marvelouser one

Well, it certainly sounds like a heap of fun...especially with the right costumes and roleplaying.

[Catigale]

One of the reasons I enjoy this site is because of the varied responses.

Bilge gave us the equivalent of War and Peace, and Ix gave us the CliffsNotes version

Ray

Yeah. Sorry to submit you to that. A tendency towards near logorrheic verbosity is an occupational hazard for "professional explainers" such as your humble Bilgemaster. "Logorrhea"...marvelous word.

That's when you write a lot in the ships log, right?

[mjgill1]

The response on this thread was great! I got her and brought her home a couple of weeks ago. We are now maker her our own with some mods. I had her on Lake Rathbun last week and was sailing at an easy 6.5 mph on the GPS. Wow!

Haven't figured out how to post pictures to this yet but will plan on putting up some when I do.

Thanks again!

[Tomfoolery]

Upload to http://www.tinypic.com, and post the url it returns that has the ubb code at each end ([ img] and [ /img]). Just paste that line right into your post and hit preview to see if it's right before submitting.

No account, no names, no sign up, no nothing. Good for quick and dirty image posting. Videos, too.

Edit: I have no connection to that site; I just wanna see pics.