MMC wrote:

Doug,
Have gone thru most of your list and the Macgregor's layout is by far the
most open I've seen in anything in that size range. I also like the weight
and draft.
Any idea how it sails?

They're tender, but they're pretty fast. The older Mac 25 swing keel (as opposed
to the Mac 26 water ballast... the older model, not the PowRsailR-X model) has a
bit of reputation as a PHRF giant killer. It's heavier on the trailer though.
Because they are shoal hulls and tender, they need to be depowered & footed off
in heavy air. The crew also needs to get used to heeling!

There are a couple of faster trailerables... harder to fnd though, and most of
them are heavier. My pick would probably be the Evelyn 26 with the lifting bulb
keel, or one of the small sportsboats (much commoner in Australia than over here
though) designed by Farr or Jutson. Check out the B-25, Elliott 770, Kirby 24
(another rare bird), Tripp 26, one of the S2 trailerables, or the real cream of
the crop, the Great Harbor 26

http://www.hankhinckley.com/26top.html

Proof that you can in fact have it all.... it just costs more!

Fresh Breezes- Doug King