Mac 26M Yawl conversion--any reason not to?

[mastreb]

The lack of a boom in this application might be a disadvantage given the dimensions of the MacGregor stern configuration.

I would have to rig a boom, and I'd use a whisker pole to "sub" for a loose-footed boom in this application. I'd use dual port and starboard mainsheets for control, run forward to the gunnels.

I'm frankly astonished that someone has actually mounted a fully rigged aft-mast to do the same thing. Wish I had some indication of whether the effort was worth it.

[Catigale]

Catigale wrote:
Actually the name came from the Civil war when ketches were warships provided to the Confederacy by the British


Hi Stephen, my understanding (and the dictionary's) is that the word is from the middle english and substantially older in origin, but that it came to American English as you indicate.

The English sent ketches into Savannah harbor, and the confederates said...

What kind of boats Yawl sent us ?

[Crikey]

I'm mizzen something here!

[Highlander]

I'm mizzen something here!

Yeh ! Da Boat !!!

J

[Herschel]

I would have to rig a boom, and I'd use a whisker pole to "sub" for a loose-footed boom in this application. I'd use dual port and starboard mainsheets for control, run forward to the gunnels.

We are getting close to the point where pictures or hands on comments are going to be most useful. You seem to have this pretty well thought out. Per chance, I am going to be in the Escondido area for three weeks in June. I'd be happy to stop by and chat about your plans and talk "yawl" with you.

[Hamin' X]

Is this who Highlander calls Yoda?

[kmclemore]

When I first read the topic title I thought it was about "everyone's" conversion.

Too many years in the South.

[mastreb]

I would have to rig a boom, and I'd use a whisker pole to "sub" for a loose-footed boom in this application. I'd use dual port and starboard mainsheets for control, run forward to the gunnels.

We are getting close to the point where pictures or hands on comments are going to be most useful. You seem to have this pretty well thought out. Per chance, I am going to be in the Escondido area for three weeks in June. I'd be happy to stop by and chat about your plans and talk "yawl" with you.

Love to! I'll PM you. Leaving for the Great There and Back Again Boat Towing Adventure & MUCK-About on June 20th though.

[mastreb]

The English sent ketches into Savannah harbor, and the confederates said...

What kind of boats Yawl sent us ?

[Herschel]

Love to! I'll PM you. Leaving for the Great There and Back Again Boat Towing Adventure & MUCK-About on June 20th though.

Good, I'll look forward to your PM. As I appear to be about the only "real" southerner on this thread, I'd better get back to "cookin' my grits", but lets keep talkin' about real yawls, too. They are fun to sail.

[Highlander]

Is this who Highlander calls Yoda?

Yep That would be him "The Great One"

J

[SKJOLD]

I was about to ask the same question.

What I want to know is - how are you going to get the mizzenmast out behind the rudders on a 26M? That's what defines a yawl.

Or did you mean a ketch conversion?

(Oh, never mind. I want to see what Highlander would do. Incidentally, I want to see him step the main aft and the Hobie mast forward, and make a Mac schooner.)

[mastreb]

As easy as it is to step, I've not found a place it would actually work on the centerline.