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Cheers! New member, and a new Mac 26 owner here. I just bought a Mac 26S that was located in Colorado and transported her to Texas. She has quite a history, moving from New Mexico, to Texas, Colorado, and now back to Texas. She trailered easily with no sway, even at 75mph. The previous owner modified the trailer by moving the axle back 1", and that makes a world of difference. The boat doesn't even tilt backwards when boarding while she is on the trailer.
I am extremely pleased with the purchase since the boat came loaded with goodies and spares that weren't mentioned on the original ad.
I'm taking my time right now, cleaning and inspecting her. Other than road grime and crud from sitting for over 2 years, she is in good shape, surprisingly solid for a boat that was built in 1990.
1 hurdle I went over today was the titling in Texas. Parks and Wildlife are known to be bureaucratic ***holes, and since the motor was never titled, we had some back and forth discussion, but I finally won the day.
Hopefully, she'll be on the water in April!

Congradulations! And welcom! Where are you going to sail?

I'm a tad jealous.

Extra cheese, please

My Mistress wrote:

Cheers! New member, and a new Mac 26 owner here. I just bought a Mac 26S that was located in Colorado and transported her to Texas. She has quite a history, moving from New Mexico, to Texas, Colorado, and now back to Texas. She trailered easily with no sway, even at 75mph. The previous owner modified the trailer by moving the axle back 1", and that makes a world of difference. The boat doesn't even tilt backwards when boarding while she is on the trailer.
I am extremely pleased with the purchase since the boat came loaded with goodies and spares that weren't mentioned on the original ad.
I'm taking my time right now, cleaning and inspecting her. Other than road grime and crud from sitting for over 2 years, she is in good shape, surprisingly solid for a boat that was built in 1990.
1 hurdle I went over today was the titling in Texas. Parks and Wildlife are known to be bureaucratic ***holes, and since the motor was never titled, we had some back and forth discussion, but I finally won the day.
Hopefully, she'll be on the water in April!

Congrats, you are going to enjoy her. Looks like a nice boat,

Sumner

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1300 miles to the Bahamas and back -- 2015

The MacGregor 26-S

The Endeavour 37

Trips to Utah, Idaho, Canada, Florida

Mac-Venture Links

Hope you have a bucket full of fun!!

Congrats.... extra cheese.

You will find this forum is an excellent place for information.

Good looking boat! Congratulations.

grady wrote:Congradulations! And welcom! Where are you going to sail?

I'm presently a stones throw from Medina Lake, Texas. I'm also planing on sailing the ICW from Corpus Christi south to Baffin Bay

Sumner wrote:Congrats, you are going to enjoy her. Looks like a nice boat,

Sumner

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1300 miles to the Bahamas and back -- 2015

The MacGregor 26-S

The Endeavour 37

Trips to Utah, Idaho, Canada, Florida

Mac-Venture Links

Thanx for the links. I'm sure they'll be useful!

She's a fine sleek-looking gal, ain't she? There's a reason they call it a "Classic Macgregor." I'm a new Mac owner too (in my case a 2001 26X) tinkering away whenever I can and hoping to also get into the drink in Spring, so have little practical knowledge to offer, unless you count scratching one's head while staring cluelessly at a rat's nest of unlabelled and undiagrammed electrics. Still, I would have recommended a good long look at Sumner's webpages on his 26S for some truly solid experienced info on your model and his impeccably workmanlike mods, but I see he's already got you covered. I think we'd all love to see some more photos, inside and out, and your thoughts on what might need doing as you go along.

Enjoy!

My Mistress wrote:

grady wrote:Congradulations! And welcom! Where are you going to sail?

I'm presently a stones throw from Medina Lake, Texas. I'm also planing on sailing the ICW from Corpus Christi south to Baffin Bay

Sounds like fun. Putting in at Corpus and sailing down there is on my to do list with mine. Let us know how everything goes this spring.

Bilgemaster wrote:"~ so have little practical knowledge to offer, unless you count scratching one's head while staring cluelessly at a rat's nest of unlabelled and undiagrammed electrics."

Enjoy!

That has already happened! I keep finding new switches to various lights and redundant systems....

Sumner wrote:Congrats, you are going to enjoy her. Looks like a nice boat,

Sumner

I checked out your links. You have a lot of interesting mods. I may incorporate a few myself.

Congrats! I am on a parallel path having also purchased a 1990 26S a couple of months ago. I've had mine out about a half dozen times already and love it! I had never been on board one in the water before buying mine and was ready to accept pretty much any caveat in order to gain the trailering benefits, the shallow water benefits, and the low cost. I got all that and in the bargain a boat that is a joy to sail and looks really pretty to boot! You are going to love it!

Please take pictures as you do things to her. We all want to see! I've started collecting mine in a FB album you can see here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 1393ca3113

Oh, and +1 to the remarks about Sumner. He is a floating gold mine of Mac wisdom and a genuine, all around great guy!

Dan Philgreen
Fort Myers

Nice pictures, Dan. You are right, I need to start taking photo's of my start point. I've already done a couple little things that would have been better with before and after pics.