MacGregor 26M - Valiant 40
Bobsprit wrote:
You DID say you wouldn't have done it again AFTER you found build problems.
No, Bubbles, I never said any such thing.
Here is a reprise of what I *did* say: that Hunter has poor QA, and that I'd
advise other boat shoppers to look very hard in certain areas before buying
one.
If shopping for a trailerable cruiser within a certain weight range, I would
definitely buy a Hunter 19 again. It is a brilliant design, nothing else comes
remotely close. In nine years of cruising with a club of trailersailers, we
never saw any boat that was as quick & easy to rig, launch, & retrieve; never
saw anything remotely as comfortable, very few with anything approaching it's
sailing performance, and none with it's practical features like the transom
gate. Our boat was usually where the group gathered and usually the one
everybody else followed.
Of course, since you don't actually cruise, you have no apprecation for
practical values.
When are you going to answer Scotty's question about what trailerable boats of
comparable size & price to the old Mac26 sail better & have more room?
Fresh Breezes (to them wot can use 'em)- Doug King
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