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The wife of a man that I sold a Mac26 to said: "What are we going to tell our friends at the yacht club?"
I said "Tell them that you got a better boat".

I don't keep an anchor in my 26X anchor locker (my Mac 19 doesn't have one). I don't recommend keeping your anchor on the bow pulpit as there is a chance that you'll snag your headsail on it (speaking from experience). I have a 26M mast carrier on the stern of both boats, with a SS Sealux Stanchion ...

I've been on this site since 1/10/2004, and I'm only a captain. I should be at least a 2 star admiral by now. Why is that?
One of life's mysteries.

Hi Marty - I unhinge the top - kind of like me. I don't have a photo and I can't put the top up with the mast down for the winter. See my previous post about how I do it. The tubing is vertical. Send me a private message and I'll send you a photo and diagram in the spring when I get the mast up.

I liked his steering set-up without a tiller. And the way the gas locker lids were removed so that you had some leg room, with the bench seat so that you are facing forward. I don't need a sliding hatch as I can lift my whole hatch up 2', with aluminum crutch tubing into 1" flag pole holders at all ...

I wasn't serious about the 100' of #4 copper wire (110' in Canada) that would protect your boat from a lightning strike, in my post above, obviously. I talked to the guy, that I knew from where he had worked previously, at the Strictly Sail show in Chicago, who was selling those bottle brushes that ...

I've heard that if you have a #4 copper wire, in the water, the length of a football field, attached to your mast, it will protect your boat from a lightning strike. The length of a football field in the U.S. is 100 yards. However, the length of a football field in Canada is 110 yards, so there you ...

I thought that I had a terrific idea several years ago. Instead of trailering my Mac 19, or 26X to Florida and back every year, why not just buy a boat that is already in Florida, and fly back and forth. I found a boat on craigslist that looked an awful lot like the Tattoo 22 that I had seen at the ...

I went back and looked at the Mac 19 that sold on 10/13/2020 for $5,500 after 56 bids. It is the same Mac 19 that sold on 12/2/2020 (as Marty said) for $8,000, buy it now, which I thought was interesting, for a 25 year old boat. The list price for a new Mac 19 was $7,990 + $995 freight to Wisconsin....

I use cassette tape tied to the shrouds for tell-tales, just above the shroud covers. I use rock and roll tapes, but if you are concerned about mud-daubers I think that disco tapes would keep them away.
Bill at BOATS 4 SAIL

The Mac 19 currently for sale on ebay has a lot of similarities to another Mac 19 that was for sale recently, that were not on the standard Mac 19: mast carriers fore and aft, sliding hatch, ruders, aft gas locker lids removed (it says removable bench seat), clear plastic screw-in ballast tank cover...

We start out with the same part(s) from Garhauer, I think, but then I modify them.

Thanks Kevin, and all of the other members.
Bill at BOATS 4 SAIL

I prefer hanked-on sails, because of the amount of trailering that I do. It's a lot easier to get the mast up and down, especially at my age (77). I do have a 26M mast raiser for my 26X. I carry a jib, Genoa, and spinnaker. When I'm by myself I just fly the jib, in addition to the mains'l. The sugge...

I compared my Mac 19 to the one on ebay. The hinged tops of the gas tank lockers were removed, and there's a bench seat all the way athwartship at the aft end of the cockpit, which would make for much more comfortable sitting leg room, in pics 8 and 11, but it looks like it was removed in pic 12. Th...