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Mac26X fit for all waters
* Ed Gordon wrote, On 6/12/2007 11:53 AM:
Jeff wrote in : And yet, just yesterday, you bragged about how fast it would go with an empty ballast tank with the Honda engine. Hey, man, I can do it because I'm not stupid or drunk. I was smart enough not to have bowriders etc. Keep the people inside or in the cockpit for stability with an empty tank. It does go faster without the ballast under power. It's just plain physics. So what is it? First you say fill the tanks, now you say run empty? So please explain to us which boats it sails faster than. You've said many times that its a "fast sailer" but when I look at the ratings, I have trouble finding a boat remotely comparable to a Mac that isn't 10% faster, or more. In fact, its real hard to find a boat that's slower than a Mac. So please, give us an example of a boat that sails slower than a Mac. Any boat that has less length waterline will be slower than a Mac under sail. Only an idiot or a simpleton would make that claim. There are many more factors than waterline length. But since the Mac is a plaining hull it can go faster than heavy ballast keel boats in winds strong enough to plain it off. The Mac can plane only in certain limited situations. You want an example, just look up boats that have less than a 23 feet. Here's one much slower Alerion Express 20. Oh, so you pick a boat 6 feet shorter - one that's designed for simple daysailing. It shouldn't be too hard to beat a boat like that. OK, lets look at the USSailing Portsmouth Yardstick for these two boats. The Mac 26X is 99.5, but the Alerion 20 is only 93.1. So that means the Alerion is more than 6% faster than the Mac. Sorry, maybe you're faster than a Rhodes 19. Nope, that's 96.9. Wait! I found one! You're faster than a Typhoon, the 18 foot Alberg design. It only rates 106.9. Congratulations, the mac is not the slowest boat on the water! Yes, that's the perfect boat for a family cruiser. Even in perfect weather, if you get complacent it will roll over and kill you. Catamarans roll over and kill people too. People still buy them too. It's because they know the risks. Every boat has it's own risks. You're too uptight, man. The difference is that a cat has a small chance of rolling in extreme weather, hurricanes and the like. The Mac has a chance of rolling if a few people are standing up and you goose the throttle by mistake. |
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