Jim Cate wrote:
Doug, I don't know where you were at the time

I do.

, but this was discussed
over and over again, ad nauseum, a few months ago.

Yep. You were wrong then, and you're wrong now. The "completely
different hull design" is a bit of advertising fluff from MacGregor.
There are a few differences in the deck & cabin molding. There may be
invisible differences in the structural details, although I wouldn't
believe it myself without more proof than MacGregor's say-so (after all
they have already lied once). The biggest difference is that the Mac 26M
comes in two different colors.

DSK