John Cairns wrote:

Pretty obvious by now, "Jim Cate" is just a troll, pretty successful one at
that. If he isn't and he ends up doing what he claims he's going to do, you
probably won't be hearing much from him down the road. If he is, which I
strongly suspect, he's got everyone here, almost everyone, firmly hooked.
Now I will admit he hooked me but unless it's blatantly obvious(politics or
something of that nature) I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
It is blatantly obvious that "Jim" is just trolling along, he admitted as
much very recently when he posted..................

As mentioned in previous notes, I was hoping to get some substantive
information about the Mac 26M and several other boats before making a
decision last month. - The only thing I got was a series of Mac
Bashings posted by contributors who didn't know what the hell they were
talking about. None of them had sailed the 26M, and most of them didn't
even know that the 26M was different from the 26x.

I'm incredulous that you would characterize ME as being a troll. I was
making a sincere effort to collect information about several boats,
including the Mac, but also including several others. If my wife hadn't
been so negative about the ratty interior of the Cal 34, I was ready to
put a deposit on it and get a survey.



"Actually, I knew what I was getting into when
I decided to defend the Macs on this ng, since this group has been
bashing them for a number of years."

Which would make his initial posts, claiming he wanted "opinions" about the
mac, bald-faced lies. Which would greatly increase the probability that
everything he has posted is untrue. Wouldn't surprise me if this was the
Boob, you know how much he loved to troll.
John Cairns


In addition to the obviously biased, obviously uninformed "opinions"
that I anticipated from past experiences on this ng, I had hoped that I
would also get some substantive, factual information from at least a few
knowledgeable contributors who had actually sailed the 26M, or who at
least knew what what they were. Instead, I got a long serious of
opinionated garbage from ng members who wasted most of a week trying to
convince me that the "old" boat was the same thing as the "new" boat. In
other words, despite the fact that they had no idea what the 26M was,
they still tried to put me down for giving them some specs regarding the
boat. (I was only repeating Rogers advertising, they said, and the boat
probably didn't really have a different hull, different keel, different
sails, different ballast system, etc., etc. - I was just sucked in by
MacGregor's advertising.)

I asked for information, I got none, I then researched the matter and,
with consideration of my wife's preferences of my wife, made the
decision to get the Mac 26M. - This isn't trolling, under any rational
definition.

Jim