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What can I say to add to what the guys have already said. Maybe this...Just got back from a weeks hol with the admiral in an area where sailing wouild be classed a near perfect. Open ocean, no reefs. Have a look at Google earth and zoom in on Geographe Bay. Between Cape Naturaliste and the township of Bunbury. The prevaling wind is sou-west. Seems there it does not matter how hard it blows, it is mostly an offshore breeze...and me with the in Perth.
On the way back TO Perth, called in at the Bunbury Yacht club. And there, brand new, was the latest . Sadly it was a white one. bit slower than SEAHORSE. GETTING AWAY FROM THE SUBJECT HERE.
speaking to one of the YC officials, who just happens to live at Australind, a bit to the east and on the shore of the obvious waterway [ the large shallow stretch of water parallel to the coast...re google earth] WHO COMPLAINED that he could not use his 22 ft. KEELBOAT [ shoal draft/12 inch skeg/drop keel] there. Too shallow...And I suggested he wait for a report from the new YC member who owns the MAC , who will no doubt explore in there. Maybe not sailing but can actually OPERATE there.
These boats are described in one word...VERSATILE...
Puggsy

Here's a great comment on the versatility of the Mac powersailors. True story this weekend. My brother in law drove his new to him ski boat with giant inboard V8 to our marina where we met for lunch. My two oldest kids 15 and 13 wanted to go tubing in the powerboat, since it's definitely faster than my Mac. Wife and I went sailing. Wind died so we lowered sails fired up the Suzuki 70 and motored down to a local sand island anchorage and hang-out to meet up with the kids and brother in law. As soon as we anchored and rafted up to the powerboat, my 15 year old son, came aboard and said, "the speed was great, but it's so nice to go below on the Mac and get out of the elements and stretch out on the couch, it's like home". Boy was I proud. Then to make a good day better...and yes this is true, not a minute after my son said that, a great looking girl in a tiny bikini walked up (there were many boats anchored or beached) and started complimenting the looks of the Mac and asking questions about it. The admiral was amused with the patience I showed in answering all her questions in detail.

Bottom line the Macgregor X or M is a great boat which I think sails well and motors well.

Jeff wrote:...not a minute after my son said that, a great looking girl in a tiny bikini walked up (there were many boats anchored or beached) and started complimenting the looks of the Mac and asking questions about it. The admiral was amused with the patience I showed in answering all her questions in detail.

You might at least have got her photo and phone number for the single gents here on the board, Jeff.

Do show some consideration, eh?

Perhaps his son beat him to it.

~Rich

I know there was a question a while back, albeit in jest, about anyone mounting a cannon on a MAC. Well now we can See that question has been answered.

Allan

Erik's 26X


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All boats are a compromise - the Macs, as trailer-motor-sailers, aren't Cabo Ricos, nor cigarette-boats, nor big plush floating mansions. But they're great at what they do - they get you out on the water, in reasonable comfort, under sail or under power.

I was thinking of trading up from Beija-Flor, a to a Catalina 30, as a "cottage on the water" to explore the live-aboard experience. But for just me, already living in my house, do I need that much boat? For half the price of a late-eighties Cat 30, I can get a Mac 26X with about 90-95% of what I was looking for in Frank Butler's boat ... and I can bypass the Intracoastal Waterway on I-95, going as far in an hour as the Cat 30 would go in a day.

Find someone to take you sailing in a Mac. Stretch out in one of the bunks, sit at the table, try it on for size. It might pinch your ego a little, but the only reason I'm uptrading from my Beija-Flor is to get the stand-up headroom and other amenities of life that don't fit below its decks ... but do fit in a Mac 26X or 26M.

Best of luck! Smooth seas, fair winds, and safe harbor at journey's end.

Rick

PS to LoveMACs - ROFLMAO at the pirate scene! Arrrghhh!