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Funny, I've been looking at the MacGregor


Yeah, they are kinda funny looking.




for a while now as a potential
purchase. I would really like a sail boat but the family
wants a power
boat. I occasionally sail on a friends 1929(?) wood hull
sailboat and
that is the life for me. My family likes our other
friends 21 ft
Chris-Craft.


We used to go camping with a family that had a power boat.
My wife & kids would go sking with him while his wife and
kids went sailing with me. Worked out great.




It seems to me that sailors don't like it because it's not
a "real"
sailboat. Powerboaters don't like it because it isn't a
"real" power
boat and then there are those with them who more or less
seem to like
them. I have heard some say it bobs like a cork under
sail and that the
hull is weak.


They are ''lightly built'', makes them easier to trailer and
cheaper to buy. IMHO they are good for lakes and protected
waters.


Certainly there are compromises made just like an enduro
will never be a
great dirt bike or a great road bike but, it has it's
place. The
question is, how is the MacGregor? I'd like to do coastal
sailing in
Southern California. I probably would never venture
farther than
Catalina or the channel islands. I'd also like to sail
some of the
lakes like havasu, Powell, etc. so the trailerability of
the MacGregor
is appealing. Family of 4 up to 1 week trips once or
twice a year. I
wouldn't consider myself the fair weather type; as skills
progress I'd
sail year around in as much weather as the ship and her
captain are
capable of.


Buy a better sailing trailerable. Rent jet-skis for your
kids.

Seriously, can you afford a small sail boat AND a small
power boat?


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Scott Vernon
Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_