. Her lodgings are appealing. With minimal conversion she can sleep 6 in a pinch. The dinette not just seats 5 but is raised so that all have an excellent view of the outside world. Those deep, dank caves we utilized to call sailboats cannot hold a candle. The head is enclosed, the galley has a niche for an alcohol stove, the 48-quart cooler is detachable so you can pack it in the house, and all of the interior cushions and bed mattress come near make down-stairs clean-up as basic as switching on the hose. Trailering has been made, if not sure-fire, a minimum of ridiculously simple. A forward ladder on the custom-built trailer makes it a three-step breeze to obtain aboard (and why haven't other makers adopted this simple and great concept ). "Goal posts" guide you in on a landing and you drive the stem right to the rubber stopper on the winch post with complete engine control. MacGregor pride in being the lowest trailer on the market is warranted when you see how that keeps the tow vehicle from the water and still drifts the hull easily without any tongue extension. Mast up (by hand or with the slick custom-made winching system) and you're set. You can reduce the mast and raise underway for fixed bridges or simply for kicks. Light building cuts both methods. It opens up the boat's shimmering efficiency, but does it render her seaworthy It makes her affordable, but it makes you question. MacGregor's finest argument - that he understands his products - is the more than 36,000 boats he's built. I can look at the quarter-inch bolts closing the hull-deck joint and envision them zippering through the hull flange under the loads enforced by huge water, but there are 36,000 locations where he can say and point, "it does not take place." I do not expect the 26 to be extremely forgiving of sailor error, or to have the massive "strength in reserve" of its heavier counterparts. A conventionally keeled sailboat is "self-righting" (ask the Smeetons who were turned turtle off Cape Horn in their heavy 45-footer what "self-righting" really implies) due to ballast hung at the bottom of its keel. The MacGregor has no keel. She's a centerboarder. With her foil-shaped centerboard rotated down she can cruise without making much freedom, however the board weighs just 30 pounds. That hardly makes her "self-righting." Her stability originates from her hull kind (reasonably flat-bottomed mid-sections and tough chines), and from water ballast. Water ballast is cool - open the valve and she ingests 1500 pounds of water. It completely fills its tank, cannot leakage, and won't move. The weight of the water is down low where it works best to neutralize the heeling force from the sails. When we opened up the valve the ballast came in and, in 8 minutes approximately, the tipping under bare poles was no longer happening. Let out the water and the plan you have to pull behind your car ends up being 1500 pounds lighter. Run the water out of the boat and you increase the power-to-weight ratio enough to sustain twenty knots with a 50-horse outboard in a boat that sleeps 6. Water ballast can be set up when you need it, and it's complimentary. By including to her displacement, the MacGregor adds substantially (in between 40 and 50 percent) to her stability. Please send any and ALL offers - your offer could be accepted! Submit your offer today! At POP Yachts, we will certainly constantly offer you with a TRUE representation of every vessel we market. We encourage all purchasers to schedule a survey for an independent evaluation. Any offer to purchase is ALWAYS subject to satisfying study results.Contact us for a totally free BoatHistoryReport.com guide on this vessel. We pay upfront for a guide on every vessel possible, and we provide this assurance to our purchasers at no charge and with no commitment. All you have to do is ask! Have a look at ALL ORIGINAL PICTURES of this vessel on our major web site at POPYACHTS DOT COM. Thank you for seeing and we look forward to speaking with you! - Stock # 48739.