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Actually I transitioned to the Harley some years ago and never looked back. Still I don't pour scorn and contempt upon the proud owners of Harley Wanabees.

My current ride ...



BTW. My search goes on ... see you at the Vancouver Boat Show tomorrow.

eliems wrote:Actually I transitioned to the Harley some years ago and never looked back. Still I don't pour scorn and contempt upon the proud owners of Harley Wanabees.

My current ride ...



BTW. My search goes on ... see you at the Vancouver Boat Show tomorrow.

Go back and study some more and then take the test again. Why because you were tested and failed. Mac owner don't have to explain or defend anything to anyone to others about their boats. If you want to buy a Yamaha then you buy a Yamaha not because you or others think it looks like a Harley Davidson but because dam it you wanted the riding performance of a Yamaha. Now with the Mac it doesn't look like or perform like anything else so others can not relate to it, and are natural scared or unsure of the unknown. So the best way show them the best qualities of a Mac which is also the best way for your former Yamaha is not talk about it but you tell them to shut-up, get on, and ride. Now if they don't want to do that, don't waste your time with another sorry piece of chicken sh-- of a human being.

Y.B.Normal wrote:Gypsy:
There are several reasons I named my 26M "Y.B.Normal".
It's not a normal powerboat; it's not a normal sailboat; and both my family and my wife's family aren't "normal" .
As the late UCLA Phych. Prof. Leo Bascallia used to say "If people think you're crazy, it gives you a big latitude of
behavior."

Eliems: WELCOME ABOARD!!! . You'll find most people on this site to be helpful and fun.

I like Prof. Bascallia's way of thinking !

I do too

Why am I wearing this funny white suit with my hands tied behind my back?

Catigale wrote:I do too

Why am I wearing this funny white suit with my hands tied behind my back?

and all costs about a Dollar.

I just love it when RS tells us what he really thinks...

MacGregors fill a niche , just like all other products .
One thing I started noticing many years ago , go to any given marina , and two brands of boats are guranteed to be in there , a Bayliner and a MacGregor . That can't be said for any other brands.

As with any hybird , they don't do both jobs well . An amphibous car doesn't perform as well as a boat or as well as a pure car.

A Mac doesn't perform as well as a pure sailboat or as well as a pure cabincruiser , instead does both reasonably well .
We have enjoyed ours in the Alabama River . The sailing is lousy , but the motoring is good .
The Ala River is our highway to Mobile Bay where the sailing is excellent !

We are retiring on limited funds and want to liveaboard for a few years. We needed a boat that was large enough , trailerable , and most important of all , economic to operate . At 10mpg , plus the ability to sail , plus having a motor large enough , to charge batteries and get out of the way of a storm , we fullfilled our needs in a boat with our Mac !
We found no other boat to meet all these needs !

When I told my mother we were buying a Mac she was ecstatic. Her and my step father have a 56ft (ya) custom wooden power cruiser,and they can't wait to get on our boat! We can cruise up and down the PNW/Alaska coast or pull out and hit up some of the thousand miles of chain lakes in the north. The funny thing when people mention power boats everyone thinks ski boat, but most of what we see up here is live aboard converted fishing trawlers that max out at twelve knots. Of all the people on docks I've chatted with over the years, they always chose to boat cause of the slow paced relaxed lifestyle on the water stopping in some tiny costal town away from everyone or they're fishing. When the hull did did it become so important to be the fastest sail/power boat on the water in the first place? You don't see fishing trawlers ramping up props and engines to do fifty mile an hour to get out of the harbour. Thought we're all here to enjoy ourselves and have fun? Relax?