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Under a helpful reply in the repair forum, I noticed that member Svscott has a 26X "to be named."

May I start the suggestions with:
ATARAXIA

Other suggestions???

Svscott, Thanks for the pictures. I think what you are saying is that your rigging almost corrected your bend and to fix it the rest of the way you had to strap it down and force it back to normal. Right? And my bend, being much less than yours, may not need to be strapped and stretched like yours, ...

Thanks. I will bend it back to normal on the next nice day. Stay tuned.

p.s. - IMO, add those white BWY drink holders to your order.

We have the table you are considering. We use it constantly, on every trip, for meals and snacks. The mainsheet loop on top is very desirable and useful. While the table is narrow, it suits the two of us. When we have more people on board for snacks or meals we bungee on the top of the narrow table ...

Yesterday a large tree limb hit my trailered Mac 26X mast at an angle, from port to starboard, crushing the mast crutch. The impact did not dent the mast but the impact left an estimated 4 inch rake toward the port side. It seems almost as if the normal mast incline at the top toward the stern is no...

I was about to reply with my setup but I don't need to write a word since Bill's arrangements are basically what I use. Even saved the bacon one time when I had inadvertently kicked my gas line off the outboard and ran out of gas in an area with boats and docks everywhere. Just reached to my right a...

BeFree:
You nailed it. "Going low" is exactly the pin I used. Since it had no spec to alert me to load I could not trust to use it directly so I used it to trigger a NPN transistor and that in turn ran my 12 v relay.

In a recent topic by JimmyT he described a wonderful sailing day in a J while in occasional areas of shallow water. Some years ago I discovered that same issue while trying to sail my Mac in the larger expanses of the ICW here and small bays and inlets. I was watching YouTube sailing one day long ag...

I don't want to inflate the total inside the other thread, so I am asking here if Drifter's thread about his Borneo adventure is approaching a forum record for # of posts inside that thread?
Cheers....!

And you got the word to never have anyone on top of the boat without a full ballast tank?

Enough said.

If you have a question on that, look at thread history or start a new thread.

Super progress.
Comments:
- Looks like incandescent lighting. If yes, someday when you have nothing to do, consider LED for running lights as well as interior lamps.
- I've never seen an example of the early model X fill valve underneath the boat before. My '99 X has none. Thanks.

Drifter, The two pics below will have to do until I get back to my boat next week. Step 1 is to cut off the s.s. bits sticking out that make the poor man's block. Pic 1: Black outline is block from above. Green is pulley block. Red on upper side is slipped under mast plate. Red on lower side is new ...

https://i.ibb.co/dMpVLfs/Screenshot-2020-10-25-054517.jpg This is my block. I drilled one hole for one corner bolt and shared another of the block's holes with a mast plate bolt. BUT, you say your passage from below is tiny and only fit for wire cable. Sorry then. Cable it must be, but surely the b...

Drifter, Sleep easy. You bought the right boat. Plus we all enjoy the tales of your adventures very much. Invite us all down to your first launch, please. But, the new sailor here has to buy the rest of us beer and pizza. Now, for the centerboard. It fills with water to help make it less effort to r...