OK; I was sorta trying to say we owners of
older C&C boats may be well advised to be a
little gentle when speaking of other boats,
and like someone on this list said lately, to
each his own and I agree with what you are
saying, there are many ways to have fun on the
water in any boat or board or whatever!!!
Dwight Veinot
C&C 35 MKII, Alianna
Head of St. Margaret's Bay, NS
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Agree Dwight. As you know, everything is
relative, and quality costs $$$. Also, it is
possible to overbuild quality into a boat,
until it becomes unjustifiably expensive for
the average person. ie, Swan or even Wally
Yachts. It's been my experience that you can
have more fun for less money, by not buying too
big or too expensive. This leaves more money
to have more fun doing other things. Love my C&C, but I like to dream.
Presently, I dream of a cruising version of an
all carbon Open 60 running on a broad reach at
18 knots under autopilot, reefed main and
genneker, Winds NW at 25 to 40, Atlantic City
to Block Island, 10 hrs. Or maybe a Corsair
31, same speed, less physical effort w smaller sails. Just dreaming.
It's 36 degrees out and sunny and my beautiful
Resolute is sleeping under a tarp, on the hard,
30 minutes away, while I answer email and avoid going out into the cold.
Chuck
Resolute
1990 C&C 34R
Atlantic City, NJ
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Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 4:52:02 AM
Subject: Re: Stus-List Two more boat reviews on the horizon
Yea Chuck
and dare I say, some of us C&C owners
may like to upgrade someday too
like who would
among us would refuse a Swan or a Baltic or???
Dwight Veinot
C&C 35 MKII, Alianna
Head of St. Margaret's Bay, NS
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Subject: Re: Stus-List Two more boat reviews on the horizon
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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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: <mailto:sam.c.sal...@gmail.com>sam.c.sal...@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:24:00 -0700
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> 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
<<mailto:cnclistforw...@hotmail.com>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
<<mailto:f...@postaudio.net>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 well
> >>
> >> 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 <<mailto:bushma...@aol.com>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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