I was going through some old paperwork last week and saw the numbers that were in my deposit account that was never returned. Approximately $3,000.

I prefer hanked-on head sails (instead of RF). It makes it a lot easier to get the mast up and down, and trailer. I always have a head sail down haul line attached to the top or second hank, through some fairleads aft to the cockpit so I can drop it if it's too much. I'm working on a self-tacking ji...

If I have a slip, I leave my dock lines on the dock. If I'm going somewhere, often by myself, I have 4 15' dock lines. On each side I have a line on the stern cleat going forward and a line on the bow cleat going aft and I tie the 2 ends together. When I get where I'm going, I can step off my Mac, g...

The only molds that I recall were no longer any good were the ones for the MacGregor 65. I had a customer call me and said if I could get him a Mac 65 he would also buy a 26 for his son. I called the Mac factory and tried to get a 65 for him but was told that they were ending production of the 65 be...

It was when they were still selling the Tattoo 26. The molds that I saw were for the Tattoo 22. I'm not a lawyer, and this is purely speculation but I think that Roger may have claimed the 26M molds were worthless for tax purposes. By case law, the Tattoo 26 is a different boat, as they moved the st...

I talked to a parts manufacturer at Strictly Sail in Chicago one year and he said that Roger MacGregor was the best in the business in paying his bills. Unfortunately his daughter Laura was not like that. I had over $1,000 in my deposit account. After Tattoo stopped making boats, I called them many ...

I spent some time in the FLAKEYS back late 60's early 70's. A buddy kept his Hunter in Islamorada in the winters. I would go down and do some sailing, etc with him. One of the reasons it took me 9 years to graduate from college (in the top 80% of my class). He kept it in the marina at Holiday Isle, ...

Hi Bill - Welcome aboard. This site will be a very good source of info for you. I just talked to John on the phone (847 347 4641). He is very interested. He has a place in Punta Gorda, and another place closer to you. He could pick it up with his Mac 26M trailer. If you don't make contact with him f...

It's pretty much destroyed, non-fixable.

I just got promoted to Admiral. The last time I got moted was when I was in the army in Nam in '65, and got demoted from E5 to E4. It was shortly after I got blown into the Saigon River. I was so stressed that I was having audio hallucinations, as well as some agent orange conditions. I said that &q...

A sailor now in Florida, that bought two 26M's from me, broke his mast. Does anyone know where he can get a good, or repairable 26M mast?
Thanks - Bill at Boats 4 Sail

A nice time to be out sailing is the day of a full moon. See the sun set and then the moon rising.

I didn't like the way the cabin top was hinged on the forward edge. I was in a W Marine store where they were selling the 1" flagpole holders (fph) at a very low price. I bought a bunch of them, removed the forward hinges, put 4 fph on the bottom 4 corners and 4 on the deck. Aluminum crutch (wh...

I think that I've now had one, or more, of every water ballast boat that MacGregor made: my first Mac was a '92 26C(S), then 26x (I had 3 of these): 1 - picked up by a tornado while still on its trailer and dropped on a fence with a 4x4 going into the stern berth. Fixed and sold. 2 - Another 26X. So...

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