The invention was ingenious.

Macgregor 26 capsize. Boat is tipped more than 60 degrees and can capsize like most. FOAM FLOTATION With the normal gear and crew the MacGregor 26 has suffi- cient solid foam flotation blocks to keep the boat afloat in the event the cabin fills. Spreaders are mounted in sockets on the mast an improvement over the original 26.

Try a swing keel Catalina 25. Just a look at the Mcgregor rig tells you instantly that this is not a good sailing boat. MacGregor told us that in the spring of this year he took the 26 out of production having built about 7000.

For this rea-son we have placed the restrictions on crew capacity shown in the preceeding section. Sure enough dangerous but the Mac pulled through. With more than this the weight of the crew becomes very large in relation to the weight of the boat and the stability of the boat might be compromised the manual says.

The rig is the size of most 20 footers. It has been replaced with the 26x he said. 25 9.

With a focus on trailer able pocket cruisers MacGregor developed the first water ballast system for their 26-footer in the late 1980s. I forgot to say that the MacGregor is a sailboat - It may not perform well crossing an ocean and may take twice. The front page of the MacGregor 26 instruction manual says the boat can capsize if the ballast tank is empty.

Some of the capsizes can be attributed to overloaded boatsdrunken skippers and operating the boat incorrectly undersail with no ballastBut at least one capsize has occured with a boat motoring with no sail set in admittedly fresh conditions but notably on a day when many smallerconventionalboats coped without problem. 10 HP but the 26X now took up to 50 HP. The MacGregor is big but relatively light and excessive crew.