Hey Bill, it sounds like it's fine for your purposes. I have nothing against
Macs if you know what you're getting into.

Your original quote was "IMHO the MacGregor 26 offers the best of both
worlds... for someone
with limited resources and/or nautical abilities or whatever."

I'd say you fit in the whatever category more than the others. For people
with strictly "limited resources and/or nautical abilities" there are better
boats.

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I disagree Bill. It's a self-limiting boat.

Captain Ganz I am very familiar with your position relative to
the capabilities or the lack there of... pertaining to the Mac-
Gregor 26 X/M. I have followed your postings on other threads
having to do with the "Mac". I might add that I found your com-
mentary very usefull and respect your opinions along those lines.

Previous to my current interest in the MacGregor 26... I was
considering a 30-40 foot sloop or trawler but gave up the chase
after carefull consideration of my own limitations. More specific-
ally I wanted to be able to operate single handed... and found
that at my age (67) I would find such a sailing vessel rather intim-
idating for me physically.

So I looked into a trawler (I believe it was a 34' Mainliner) and
after trashing around for several hours outside the Ventura Harbor
(California) I came into bunker... which cost around $ 75.00...
for the fuel I had expended. I decided that ain't going to work
either... :-)

Like Dirty Harry use to say... "a man must know his limitations".

So as a result I kind of became enamored with the MacGregor con-
cept. Needlessto say... it appears that thousands of others have
as well.

And yeh... it's kind of a "wannabee" situation with the Mac... but
what the heck... for a lot of us it's better than nothing!

Best regards

Bill