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i have a slight problem,i bought my 6 months ago and have read this forum cover to cover twice.sail about three days a week.and do mods in my free time.can rig and launch in 8 minutes now.problem is my job is taking up valuable macgregor time.thankyou all for your generous info and tips. PETER.

can rig and launch in 8 minutes

You're my hero.

now.problem is my job is taking up valuable macgregor time.

Quit the job, get wi fi, live on the boat.

miss u wrote:can rig and launch in 8 minutes

Depends on what one means by "rigging". If the mast is already up, the cooler is well stoked, the bimini in place, the fenders are already dangling, the GPS connected and running, the engine is lowered and primed, the rudders are ready to be deployed, the cockpit cushions snapped in place, the valve open, the airing cap removed, the boom in position, the crutch and mast raising system safely stored below, the anchor rodes properly coiled and ready to be used, the forestay secured, the double-checking of the all the stayshas been performed, ... yeah, I guess the boat may be launched off the trailer in 8 minutes all right.

Heck, I routinely do it in 4 minutes

Heck, I routinely do it in 4 minutes

Two minutes & counting , going once , going twice , going any takers' takes me longer to undo the hydro line , dock lines

J

Its all in the definition of 'ready'

45 minutes for me for a lake sail, pretty comfortably.

When I am headed off Westport for Cuttyhunk and 12 miles of ocean crossing with young sailors on board, it takes me 90 minutes, since I triple check everything for safety before casting off.

I live 5 minutes from the city ramp and I have a fast white hulled so rigging it, raising the mast, attaching the boom, tossing over the fenders, hanking on the jib, and removing the shipping straps etc. only takes about 20 minutes before can I move into the ramp line, so I am roughly 30 minutes from driveway to water - but the cooler and gear are checked and stowed at home the night before, the main is all ready tied to the boom and once we are away from the dock (another 15+ minutes depending upon how much more stuff the wife needs and what she forgot to bring and has to run home and get and how many sunfish we have to give way to) and the jib is run up, it only takes another 10 minutes to pull the jib back down and put it up right. Then we are sailing in 1 to 1 1/2 hours. (and my wife wonders why I aim the flare gun at PWCs)

I was told to wait 30 minutes for the hubs to cool - so it takes 30 minutes to rig.
Any work done on the water is not classed as rigging, its called playing

I usually get the mast up, fenders and lines ready. Launch the boat.

Once on the water and motoring around to our destination, I do anything else that needs doing (plus my boy loves to steer the boat while dad gets everything ready).

Cheers

So, tangentair, the white M's can be rigged faster than the blue ones?

Depends on the number of head sails being set - up , storm jib, jib, genny, drifter, spinaker. right Tang.

J

Mrs
In a moment of all seriousness, there is no difference between the white or blue mechanically, there are percieved differences in the eye of the beholder and some people feel that the blue hulls are hotter in the tropics, take more work to polish and certainly are more difficult to color match after a customization by crunch and therefore wonder if they are worth the effort.
But from a different perspective, a random and highly unscientific survey of images and posting on this board, has reveled that white hulls are sailed by "real" sailors who simply outsail the "pretty boys" in their blue boats. Of course there are those who would feel that my survey is biased, and they may even post their views now and then.
Ron

tangentair wrote:But from a different perspective, a random and highly unscientific survey of images and posting on this board, has reveled that white hulls are sailed by "real" sailors who simply outsail the "pretty boys" in their blue boats. Of course there are those who would feel that my survey is biased, and they may even post their views now and then.
Ron

There's a reason that they put that big mirror in the cabin of the - so the pretty boys can gaze at themselves whilst sitting on comfy cushions and sipping on a martini.

On a white-hulled the mirror is in the middle of the inside of the head door, where it belongs, so we can make sure our fly is up when we're about to leave there and get back to the business of piloting our boat.

Oh dear, I was so enjoying those comfy cushions and martinis on our blue ! I thought those were good things!