Any updates on coastal cruising FL? I have a Mac26S and hope to do the same some winter. Any general route, timing, overnight accommodation info would be great.
I very much enjoyed this! Been looking at a 26S on Facebook marketplace to be my first sailboat. My brother and I have been learning on a 70s laser and are ready to take it up a notch. This was really fun to watch. I watched all the way through surprisingly! Thank you so much for the great content. It was enjoyable.
Looks like it's the LITE-SKIN material sold by Blue Water Yachts. Not sure where the headsail is from since they only appear to sell the mainsail version.
I was just talking to Liam about you and your beautiful macgregor. Let me know if you ever want to sell it or open for a crew. I just moved to Rochester from Australia and looking to buy a boat and I would love to look and test the macgregor first hand.
Congratulations on your new boat! Yes, just cruising around on my boat is very peaceful. Rigging is pretty straight forward. You might want to figure it out at home before you go to launch. There's a Facebook group that's very helpful: "MacGregor Sailboat Owners," as well as the website: www.macgregorsailors.com/index.php. Both are packed with helpful information.
How does it hold position so stable at 6:00 ? First Mac26S I've seen with a traveler. I'm installing similar in the next week. At 24:00 I saw you unhook something from the tiller before tacking. At 43:05 it looked like an auto-tiller :-)
Yes, Art, I use a Raymarine ST-1000 autopilot. It's great when you're single-handing. Easy to connect and disconnect from the tiller, and will hold a magnetic course when put it into auto mode. Very handy when you need to go down below for another cold beverage. :-)
@@bobhenry I have Navico TP1800. 2 seasons now and I haven't been able to try it. Power supply failed 1st year, can't remember what happened after that. Do you have a charge loop off your outboard? Most manual start motors don't have that. You can connect up to 15W solar without a charge controller. The square 7W rigid models with fancy rail mount might be all you need for intermittent sailing. I also have a 50W flex panel on deck just forward of mast. Nice weather resistant MPPT charge controller for that one. Thanks for update.
@@artsmith103 My Honda BF8A outboard does have a battery charging output - 5A @ 12 V. I also have a 50W solar panel with charge controller. I put my flex panel on the sliding hatch in the pop-top.
It is a little high. Note the boat in the video has a $400 traveler, maybe ~$200 auto-tiller, additional blocks and such for single handling, exceptional sails upgrade. ~$400 Stern rail, if only single rail. The only thing he's missing is electric start and small solar panel.
I would like to where did the tiller to rudder conection plates are available? My Mac 26s is sloppy and loose and tiller has to move 10+ dev before itudder responds
Is your slop where the tiller connects to the rudder post or where the rudder post connects to the rudder? Here's a video that shows what my tiller-rudder post connection looks like. It's tight and any slop in my system is down where the rudder connects to the rudder post. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KgAh-5rj-vY.html
