Ellen MacArthur wrote:

"JimC" wrote
| Ultimately, it boils down to what you want to do with the boat and
| what's important to you. If you have unlimited funds, then getting a
| power boat and a large, conventional sailboat, and paying for slips for
| each, makes sense.

It's a good boat if you want to go out and have people pointing at you behind your back
and laughing and thinking to themselves, "What an idiot!" And, "He coulda spent that money
on a good used sailboat and had something to be proud of." And, "I guess he doesn't care
about safety." "I guess he has no idea how silly he looks to everybody." Did you ever look
real good at a knee boarder. He's looking like some kinda retarded cripple bouncing up and
down at the end of a string. That's what Mac26s look like to me.....
JimC, maybe a person who doesn't care what other people think. But, I doubt it. If you
were you wouldn't spend so much time here trying to convince people that Mac26s are
anything but the *retarded cripple* of sailboats.

Actually, it takes at least two people to keep a discussion going,
Ellen. If you don't like my comments, you don't have to answer them. In
fact, you don't even have to read them. If you weren't so obviously
frustrated because you keep getting your ass kicked all over the ng, you
would have lost interest in Mac discussions long ago.

Jim