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I own and highly recommend the MacGregor 26 (no longer manufactured, replaced last year by the 26x motorsailer). The Mac 26 is highly trailerable by low-powered vehicles; it sits low on the trailer, has a water ballast so that the total dry trailering weight (boat and trailer) is only 2200 pounds. I towed one over 200 miles behind a 4 cyl Toyota pickup, later a 2.8 liter V6 Chevy Beretta, but mostly behind my 5 liter Mustang Convertible. My '94 Mac26 has a swing keel, which is safer in the shallow, radical-tide-variation, rocky bottom part of the Sea of Cortez where I mostly sail. Earlier Mac26's had dagger-boards, and the earliest had fixed heavy keels (which of course don't apply to my comments aboiut lightweight trailering.) > HJ> Hello everyone... Looking for Ideas on what type of > HJ> boat we should get... It has to meet the folowing > HJ> though.. > HJ> Trailerable, and towable behinde a 6cyl Toyata > HJ> 4runner. (We can put on electric brakes if the > HJ> need arises). > HJ> Preferable with a keel, and fairly easy to sail (we > I just saw a book about this in the local public library, called > "Trailerable Sailboats" or something like that, which went into detail > about what specifically to look for, what featurs are good, and which are > bad, that sort of thing. Remind me, and I will look up the exact title > and author for you. After looking through that book, I don't think I'd > want to go shopping for a sailboat without it. > --- Maximus 2.02 --- DB 1.58/004910 ---------------> * Origin: Outdoor Focus - University Place, WA (206)565-7730 (1:138/123) * Origin: The Sea and the Desert (1:114/74.2) |
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