Jeff Morris wrote:

There's a long list of beautiful 26 footers.

Agreed. Here are some of my faves

Trying to find a good picture of the S-boat, which I'd pick over the
Alerion by a slight margin...
http://home.comcast.net/~saville/SBOATrestore.htm
http://www.herreshoff.org/frames/membershipsframe.htm
http://www.herreshoff.org/frames/sitemapframe.htm

wait, here's a pretty good one... check out the tiny spinnaker and the
old fashioned boom vang
www.herreshoff.org/Tops/sboat.html

Then there's this one, which is a masterpiece, plus it's fast plus it's
trailerable... but it sure ain't cheap
http://www.hankhinckley.com/26top.html

Nice one... TransAtlantic capable, too
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/i...ke/gallery.htm

Now for something completely different
http://www.geocities.com/Lindenberg26/l26photos.html

I think these boats are pretty, too... maybe not as pretty as a Shields
or an Atlantic or a Dragon, and not as fast as an Etchells, but ther are
proof that it is possible to have a pretty 26' boat
http://www.soling.com/Pictures.asp

Here's a view you rarely see
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~truesdel/ima...n.50.knots.gif

DSK