Last season when I raised my mast, some rusty water splayed out from the sail groove. It must have accumulated during winter from something that rusted somewhere. I though it was gone, but after I raised the sail, it splattered again, right on my white mainsail, leaving nasty rusty stains. How can I...

Hi, I own 1989 Macgregor 26D which I'm really happy with. However it's getting old and I have a good opportunity to buy 2004 26M with a 90HP Evinrude motor in good condition from my friend's friend, i.e. someone I can trust not to sell me a lemon. The price is good, however after selling my 26D it's...

Thanks, good advice, it was definitely bad fuel in the carb...

OK I solved it, it runs now. I found how to drain the carburetor and that's what did it. Maybe there was some water or stale gas in the carburetor. Once drained, it started right away and run fine and smooth for 30 minutes.

I need advice troubleshooting my 1989 Yamaha 9.9HP FT9.9ELF outboard. It won't start. I use it on my Macgregor 26D sailboat so it's not used a lot. It was working fine last year, then I stored it at home in my basement as usual (so no freezing, no winterizing). I put it back on the boat today, chang...

Last season I had a problem with my 1989 Yamaha 9.9 4-stroke I bought with my Mac 26D 3 years ago. It became very unstable at idle and low throttle - sputtering and stalling unless I give it a little gas. Sometimes after starting and running for a while, then sailing, it would not want to start agai...

Yes, it doesn't pass through the holes, and no It's not even oval. I think someone has installed it incorrectly and pulled something the wrong way - that's why there's an indent on the mast (it should not be pressing on the mast at any time). I'm thinking maybe I actually can drill the hole at 90 d...

Good solutions above. From the picture it looks like the crack doesn't pass through the bolt hole in the aluminum (but beside it) and that the crack might have resulted from an over-tightening of the bolts. Is the aluminum oval at that end, as opposed to round? So to add one more option to your mul...

Can you see this link? https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipO ... ZZVWlVTkZR
The image is on the very bottom.

I decided to replace two lock nuts with wingnuts on the mast rising pole so I can leave it attached to the mast when it's down and simplify the rigging - now I have to just fold it up and tighten two wing nuts and it's ready to rise. But when I rotated the brackets I saw a crack in the aluminum pole...

With 26D the whole thing, including all the metal is part of the Ruddercraft rudder. They advised me on the phone to loosen the bolt 1/4 of turn, I also oiled all of the moving parts. So now it seems a little bit better. Still takes a lot of effort, almost all my power, to lift it, and I have to do ...

I have just finished a DIY mast support - drilling the boat was scary, but I seem to not have screwed up with my calculations. Let's hope it holds. Now I won't have to remove and put back the shaky old support every time I rig and de-rig the boat, and I can also now steer with the mast down, in case...

My 1989 MacGregor 26D has this rudder, but I can't lift it out of the water by pulling the cord. It goes to about half swing (90 degrees) or less and doesn't go farther no matter how hard I pull. I have to fish it out with a hook. I thought maybe it's a gas strut, but when I do fish it out wiht a ho...

I'm a bit confused about his shock cord system. It looks to me like the whole lower half is shock cord. It is hardened by hanging it on the mid-boom hook (forming the 'M'). But, to ease his lazy jacks, he takes it off the mid-boom hook. This makes the 'M' turn into an upside down 'U' across the two...

Interesting the creases line up with aft lazy jack, the lazy jacks should be loose when the sail is hoisted Here is a link to some lazy jack rigging tips, you will see a very familiar creases in the sail when its adjusted too tight https://stingysailor.com/2014/07/04/trailerable-lazy-jacks-2/ Great...