Catalinas and Hunters are well made sailboats, and will definitely get you around the gulf islands and San Juans with style and comfort. I would not discourage anyone who sails to look into those boats. A few years ago, I was sorting through the same decision that you presently face. I decided on a ...

Thanks everyone: Duane, I agree with your points on securing the laptop in the cockpit. I have been thinking about this also. I had not considered a PDA until now thoughIll look into them. That may very well be the solution that I have been looking for! I would love to have one of those 10 color cha...

This is not a MacGregor specific question, but I was hoping that someone out there could give me some advice. I am interested in augmenting my traditional navigation methods with a GPS chart plotter. My intention is to use my laptop for this. Would any of you care to comment about successes/ failure...

I just replaced my line today. I found that just getting into the water with the boat worked fine. Be sure to feed your line through the board such that the overhand that you tie ends up on the port side. The whole job should take ten minutes...no SCUBA required.

We took it out for shakedown cruise. Not enough wind to sail but we still enjoyed our new boat. Our first night at Sucia (Washington San Juans) we didn't get much sleep. We picked a buoy that was too exposed and had to choose between the rocking and rolling or the loud thump of the daggerboard. We w...

We brought home our '98 26X this evening. We are in love. We even drank beer on it in the driveway. We have been looking at this site for the last nine months (from Nunivak Island in the Bearing Sea), and now we have two boats in our driveway: Valparaiso and the old one which is a '78 Laguna Windros...