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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:24 pm
by baldbaby2000
Tides can be challenging, with narrow navigable bits to get in and out to the sea.
Seems like a Mac 26M or 26X with a hefty motor would be good for this issue.
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:28 pm
by bastonjock
baldbaby2000 wrote:Tides can be challenging, with narrow navigable bits to get in and out to the sea.
Seems like a Mac 26M or 26X with a hefty motor would be good for this issue.
The problem with putting a larger motor on a 26x or m over here is that you would be in breach of an EC directive made up by some snot nose little Eurocrat, from some landlocked EEC country
,an therefore your insurance would be void
Open sea
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:30 pm
by mikeober
I called Macgregor in California last week. I spoke with the first person that they would transfer me to about open ocean or blue water. I was informed that the new 26M would be fine on a " blue water passage", but the boat wasn't designed to carry that much water. Did I just talk to the wrong guy or is this really true??
Mike
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:17 am
by James V
There is way to many definations of "blue water passage"
If you want to go from Great Britian to France in good weather, sure. However from great Britian to the USA, NO!!!!!! The first storm would break your rudders and dagger board. It has happened.
IF, now that is a BIG if (no fronts for weeks), you can get good weather you might be able to cross like the Weat Wright Potter did from Mexico to Hawaii.
I have done over 3000 miles so far and there is no way that I would take it in open seas in gale conditions.
Please let us know who you talked to in the factory.
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:50 am
by Catigale
MikeOber - there are several sailors in Seattle area on this Board - sounds like you should hook up with them and take a ride on a boat and learn the ups and downs of a Mac.
Its a compromise boat that does lots and lots of things, but Pacific crossings is not one of them. It is a boat you can use anywhere in coastal range within 50 miles of shore imho.