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echo: sailing
to: J CLEVENGER
from: BOB HIRSCHFELD
date: 1996-11-27 10:11:00
subject: Re: Trailerable Boat

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
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