Friends , how interesting and diverse answers tks a lot to all of you : I would dare myself to comment on some with my prsonal opinions : - Mac X seems not a pure displacement hull , as per its hull bottom but even so being around 6kn its hull speed , anything clearly above that is to be considered ...

And one more question quite in another subject... ( as you may see I have plenty of ignorance in all fields..)

Is it actually possible to reach planing in Mac X under sails? Anybody to share this experience and the conditions for it?

thks for any reply..

Hello , a new question ( may be already dealt with in previous posts) calling for help from the experienced sailors In the directions for use of outboard it is indicated that if powering faster than 5mph both the FB and the rudders have to be up. I tend to accept it FBwise but if I decide to put on ...

THKS Tomfoolery for your reply but... What is page 3??? Are they pages here?

I use this forum as I cannot find any other specifically adressed to operational problems of the web site ( If there is, kindly point it to me thanks in advance) I just opened the site after end of last December when the web page was to be reviewed / upgraded etc .. Now when I try words /strings in ...

Thks to all!

Seapup; Kiwigrip gets well over the non-skid diamond patterns? Would it be possible to have a picture ?

Hello , My problem is that the deck floor , specifically the cockpit floor is severely damaged probably by age , sun and impacts . In particular in the cockpit the patterned floor has some broken parts i.e, the small recessed squares have very small holes/ breaks where you can see the blackish fiber...

Hello to all of you ... and some questions for the ones who may contribute .. I am in the process of purchasing a second hand cruising chute for my 26X. Obviously one of the main points is the relation between the luff lenght of the cruising chute and the distance between the mast block (where the h...

Hi, I started a topic issue about that some weeks ago with very interesting replies in the forum . Now however I have another issue on the same subject as follows As per information in Sailboatdata , dimension I= 23´ , J=9,67´ This results in a forestay dimension of 25´. ( not checked by me on the a...

Hi, I started a topic issue about that some weeks ago with very interesting replies in the forum . Now however I have another issue on the same subject as follows As per information in Sailboatdata , dimension I= 23´ , J=9,67´ This results in a forestay dimension of 25´. ( not checked by me on the a...

thks you all for the ideas ; bow sprit seems certainly the more elegant and effective solution , also at regards of good use of spi. I however use with the anchor rather frequently and this puts to me some lay out problems meaning modifications, retrofitting etc all those things which I try to avoid...

Hi, I am thinking on installing a cruising spi ( assimetrical , genaker any name) in my 1997 Mac 26X and have zero experience on that matter. When I start to think on it I get a couple of doubts , which I would like to share with more experienced members : 1) adequate dimensions ( basically luff len...

Very good and practical post... One point may be I am missing... When you all refer to wind speed of 15 knots ( or whatever ) how are you measuring that? In my view ,the instrument inboard is going to give you apparent wind speed and if you are at about 5 knots in a close hauled or close reach cours...

bonati, we went through almost the same thing with a new honda 60. Went from a 13 3/4 X13 prop to 14 X 9 to get from 4300 rpm to 5250 rpm. After a lot of searching decided we needed to get over 5000rpms to keep from messing up the motor. If you always went at hull speed it might not be too harmful ...

Thks to all guys, As summary I believe It is clear what I have to do now ( when boat is again in water) , that is to follow your advise. This to really see that the engine actually attains the 5000-6000 rpm range. But it is also interesting the comment on that the engine would probably not be suffer...