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by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:29 pm
Forum: MacGregor Powersailor Discussion
Topic: Tacking performance
Replies: 22
Views: 340

Re: Tacking performance

I tried the cabin-top fairlead tracks on my :macx: once, hoping for improved pointing. I gave up on it. I do not remember exactly why, but I did not get the improvement I'd hoped for. Were you using the stock 100 jib? If you tried doing it with the genoa for example, it would not work as well. The ...
by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:01 pm
Forum: MacGregor Powersailor Discussion
Topic: to paint or wax topside...when is it "OK" to start thinking paint
Replies: 33
Views: 6740

Re: to paint or wax topside...when is it "OK" to start thinking paint

I'll be rooting for you and following closely particularly in terms of how much work it ends up being and how it looks when you are done! I'm a bit mortified of doing a crappy job, a lot easier to paint a bedroom well...lol I know when I painted my 17, at least half the work was in the prep if not m...
by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:51 pm
Forum: Trip Logs
Topic: Florida Lower Keys - Dec 2016
Replies: 3
Views: 2225

Re: Florida Lower Keys - Dec 2016

Thanks! Yes, I believe I did meet him on my first or second trip down there well over 10 years ago now (these 2 trips were with one of my teenaged daughters at the time - all grown up now). Remember it well .. It was at Adams Key tide station beach where we got one of the biggest no-see-um swarms I'...
by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:13 am
Forum: MacGregor Powersailor Discussion
Topic: The actual odds of being hit by lightning
Replies: 121
Views: 28863

Re: The actual odds of being hit by lightning

sunshinecoasting wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:23 pm How many times do you have to get hit to realise that grounding is what's causing it, DO NOT ground your mast under any circumstances.
I think you missed the fact that the first time I was hit in 2012, the mast was NOT grounded.
by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:59 pm
Forum: MacGregor Powersailor Discussion
Topic: Tacking performance
Replies: 22
Views: 340

Re: Tacking performance

Lots of good comments on how a mac compares to a keelboat but also don't forget that the headsail type makes a big difference on a mac. Most of us (myself included most of the time) use a genoa sheeted outside of the shrouds. Whereas if you use a 100% jib (like the stock jib) sheeted inside the shro...
by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:56 pm
Forum: MacGregor Powersailor Discussion
Topic: The actual odds of being hit by lightning
Replies: 121
Views: 28863

Re: The actual odds of being hit by lightning

@Russ, there is a very simplistic ceramic thing on the main panel from the street that is designed to blow up if there is a direct hit to that line, but the 3 times I got hit it was in the backyard and only caused a surge and not blew out the lightning arrestor. But no hull damage, correct? That's a...
by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:18 am
Forum: MacGregor Powersailor Discussion
Topic: The actual odds of being hit by lightning
Replies: 121
Views: 28863

Re: The actual odds of being hit by lightning

Can't say I can buy into the dissipater theory either seeing I had one and it got melted by a lightning bolt. I watched the video that physicsteacher posted and most of it it seemed pretty reasonable, until he started going on and on about the dissipater and then with a smirk said he had a melted on...
by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:30 pm
Forum: MacGregor Powersailor Discussion
Topic: The actual odds of being hit by lightning
Replies: 121
Views: 28863

Re: The actual odds of being hit by lightning

Yes, I think the wires from the shrouds into the water did give it a path around the sides which did cause less damage. For example, on the first strike, both the lift motors got fried (one right away and another one that failed a few months later) and that was a real pain to fix. They didn't work r...
by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:19 am
Forum: MacGregor Powersailor Discussion
Topic: The actual odds of being hit by lightning
Replies: 121
Views: 28863

Re: The actual odds of being hit by lightning

Well, I just had to pull this post out of its almost 10 year old grave....why....CAUSE I GOT HIT AGAIN!!! So, guess what, most everything in this thread is kind of BS cause in Sept 2018, my macX got hit a second time by lightning and this time it was grounded, so the only thing to learn is that ligh...
by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:23 pm
Forum: Trip Logs
Topic: Florida Lower Keys - Dec 2016
Replies: 3
Views: 2225

Re: Florida Lower Keys - Dec 2016

To 'bump' my own trip log a few years, later in 2020, I did in fact cruise the middle keys specifically to close off all my tracks over the last dozen years of cruising the keys (1 week at a time for the most part). This cruise was a bit more challenging to do in the middle of 'Covid'. https://i.pos...
by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:51 pm
Forum: MacGregor Powersailor Discussion
Topic: to paint or wax topside...when is it "OK" to start thinking paint
Replies: 33
Views: 6740

Re: to paint or wax topside...when is it "OK" to start thinking paint

This seems like a nice old thread to 'bump'.. @Hershel, did you ever paint your boat? Russ obviously takes good care of his, mine is too far gone to wax now after almost 25 years in the FL sun with hardly anything but cleaning. I did a paint job on the deck/cockpit of my little 17 foot boat a few ye...
by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:30 am
Forum: Repairs and Modifications
Topic: use of "plug and play" solar for temporary use
Replies: 77
Views: 10973

Re: use of "plug and play" solar for temporary use

Thanks Russ, guess I should have figured you might be hosting images now with as much trouble as its been in the past. Perhaps you scale them down so they dont use as much space. Well, we all know good and well that the Blue hull is always the fastest :wink: but since green is actually half blue, it...
by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:24 am
Forum: Repairs and Modifications
Topic: use of "plug and play" solar for temporary use
Replies: 77
Views: 10973

Re: use of "plug and play" solar for temporary use

Sorry to post in such an old thread, but the topic is interesting because I have done it with my 100w flexible solar panel so that I could use it on both my sailboats. The most interesting use is where I built a pvc frame for the panel and then it is the perfect width to act as a 'bimini' for my cs1...
by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:01 am
Forum: MacGregor Powersailor Discussion
Topic: Where are the "old guard" of this forum?
Replies: 50
Views: 5780

Re: Where are the "old guard" of this forum?

LOL, totally unexpected award here....I'd like to thank the academy! :D Dimitri is the 9th member out of 12573 and the longest standing member to post this year. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Academy_Award_trophy.png Thanks so much Russ! And such a great job you've done with this f...
by Dimitri-2000X-Tampa
Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:41 pm
Forum: MacGregor Powersailor Discussion
Topic: Where are the "old guard" of this forum?
Replies: 50
Views: 5780

Re: Where are the "old guard" of this forum?

NiceAft wrote: Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:14 am Thanks Dimitri,

You just shoved me down to number four. :wink:
LOL, totally unexpected award here....I'd like to thank the academy! :D