For me the point really is about respect.
Respect for Good Old Boat, the magazine (Internet
publication or whatever ya call these this
nowadays, humbug). How can I offer respect to the
publication if they refer to a MacGregor 26 as a
good boat? It ain't! It may do good things but
face it, it is a lousy boat... and an even worse ferry.
Less knowledgeable people than we may be mislead.
Cheers, Russ
Sweet 35 mk-1
At 04:43 PM 03/01/2013, you wrote:
MacGregors: I can appreciate any boat that gets
you excited, and MacGregors have gotten many
people onto the water that otherwise never would.
Sometimes, price is a decider. I can appreciate
the MacGregors and Ventures and other boats out
there. I started with a styrafoam sailboard
called a Snark, graduated to a Sunfish, to a
Cape Dory 22, and spent several years boatless,
windsurfing 5 to 6 dys a week, before buying
another sitdown sailboat, our present C&C
34R. I got a good buy because of the market,
and after 10 years have spent more on slipfees,
haulouts and upgrades than the purchase price,
but I wouldn't do it any different. Love the boat. Guess it picked me?
I just don't think we should bash other brands
of sailboats. They may like to upgrade to a C&C someday?
Chuck
Resolute
1990 C&C 34R
Atlantic City, NJ
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From: "David Risch" <davidrisc...@msn.com>
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2013 6:58:14 PM
Subject: Stus-List Two more boat reviews on the horizon
When I was 9 my Dad bought a new 1969 Venture 21
and I was so excited you would think it was
Christmas. We couldn't sail worth a damn but
it didn't matter (damned dealer did not paint
the swing keel when the boat was on the
trailer...so beyond our sailing ineptitude we
were dragging around a 4 foot barnacle carrier...talk about slow!).
But...43 years later I am still excited about sailing.
Is a V-21 a Mac 26? No. Two different
animals. But same idea. We all gotta start somewhere.
David F. Risch
1981 40-2
(401) 419-4650 (cell)
> From: sam.c.sal...@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:24:00 -0700
> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
> Subject: Re: Stus-List Fwd: Two more boat reviews on the horizon
>
> I work part time in the summer for a
Macgregor dealer here on Ghost Lake in Alberta.
I set up all the new boats and bolt on all the
extras. (and fix them when they run them up the bank!)
>
> As Ken says, they really sell well.
>
> When I'm out on the lake in my C&C 26, by far
the most boats out there with me are Macs. Mac
owners may not know what they are doing, but they are enjoying doing it!
>
> Wherever I go in the world, I see Macs - everywhere!
> Sure they're ugly; Sure they don't sail worth
a s#%t; Sure they are badly put together - but
they have probably introduced more people to sailing than C&C's.
> ...and boy are Macgregor owners loyal. Lots
upgrade to new Macgregors - we often sell the same boat 2 or 3 times.
> However, you can't have boaty conversations
with Mac owners. They don't talk about outhauls
or leech lines (unknown to them). They want to
talk about stainless steel BBQ's and cockpit tables.
> Not my idea of a boat, but if it gets people
out on the water, how bad can it be!
>
> Sam Salter
> C&C 26 Liquorice
> Ghost Lake Alberta.
> (I'm off to the BVI's on the 19th.. 6 guys,
52 foot, brand new Jenneau, sailing and drinking!)
>
> On 2013-01-03, at 4:04 PM, Graham Collins
<cnclistforw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So does heroin. Doesn't make it something to aspire to or respect...
> >
> > Graham Collins
> > Secret Plans
> > C&C 35-III #11
> >
> >
> > Ken Heaton wrote:
> >> The Mac 26X does one thing really well. It sells.
> >>
> >> Ken H.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 3 January 2013 16:05, Frederick G
Street <f...@postaudio.net <mailto:f...@postaudio.net>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Richard -- it's not so much the MacGregor line that I take issue
> >> with; it's the 26X in particular. It seems like an attempt to do
> >> many things, with the result that it does none of them very wellÂ…
> >>
> >> Fred Street -- Minneapolis<
> >> S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^(
> >>
> >> On Jan 3, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Richard N. Bush <bushma...@aol.com
> >> <mailto:bushma...@aol.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The major attribute of the MacGregors is that they introduced
> >>> many people to the world of sailing and I know for a fact that at
> >>> least one of them eventually became a dedicated C&C owner...
> >>> (1975 Venture 25 model, long, long ago and far, far away...)
> >>
> >>
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