"Jim Cate" scribbled furiously
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Thanks for the warnings. - I do intend to limit my sailing to winds of
70-knots or less.

If you check the prices on Mac 26Ms, with 50 hp motors, you will be
surprised to find the prices holding rather well.

made a 98 on their 130-question test.

What I described was a keel boat going aground

Also, with all the money we
save ont he boat, we will be able to stop in some pretty nice marinas
and stay in some nice hotels when we want to.


Mainly doing self favor, snipping all of the miscellaneous bits........

Not in any particular order.............
1. Charts-they have all kinds of interesting info, like water depths, for
example.

2. The overwhelming majority of folks who drown in boating accidents do so
BECAUSE THEY FALL OVERBOARD.
You can fill a mac with enough flotation to levitate it off the surface of
the water, still won't prevent you from falling overboard, and drowning.

3. You can't prove you've sailed in winds of 30 kts., much less 70.

4. A gazillion(great word, ain't it) used boats out there and you claim you
can't find any that meet your needs as well as a mac.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA.

5. http://www.sungrill.com/Sailboat/MacGregor26X.htm#2001 A fabulous
investment, no doubt, all these newer macs are for sale because folks are
just dying to upgrade to a 26M!

6. I guess all your "clients" are innocent, Jax must have been mistaken when
he got you mixed up with that aluminum siding salesman. Off point, though
probably true and worth repeating.

7. The $14,000 in initial depreciation would pay for quite a few years at
most marinas, not to mention hotels. Again, I've pointed this out before,
you act as if the words in the mac sales literature came from a burning
bush. I can assure you(you'll have to trust me on this) they did not. BTW,
we've had enough macaniacs stumble in here before that liked to quote the
mac sales literature, I can assure you, we've heard it all before, didn't
add up then, doesn't now.

8. And of course, you admitted as much yourself, why would a 26' sailboat
with the sail area of a typical queen-sized bedsheet need a sturdy rig.
Which is what we've been trying to tell you all along. You will be extremely
disappointed with how a mac SAILS!!!!!!!!! This is a SAILING ng and that is
precisely the point. Roger likes to say that the mac powersailers "sail
better than a powerboat and motor better than a sailboat" Think CAREFULLY
about that first line, "sails better than a powerboat" What do you think
he's trying to tell you?

9. Yes, you are correct, doing well on an ASA multiple guess test proves
absolutely nothing.

John Cairns