Mods archive
At one time, I thought this site (Macgregor Owners) would be a good place for every one to put pictures. This site has a photo albums but there is no organization (only by the number of pictures in the album) and it does get used a fair amout - I haven’t checked for a while. But if your looking for mod ideas for a particular boat model, you will spend a lot of time looking through a lot of unrelated pictures.
There is also an owner’s mod section - but it also doesn’t get used very much. If you have a D or S model, you also don’t exactly know where to put the mods and there is a "redundant" C model in here which I guess is part of the reason there are almost no mods in this section. In general, everyone also does things differently - so pictures and little detail are just fine. If you want detail, use the forum..
What I think would be nice is a slightly different owners mod section where you could simply put some photo's of your particular boat - with a caption under the picture (you can currently put a caption under a picture in the albums section on this site). I.e., I could simply go to a section for example under 26S and create a "walt" photo album with all my mods - and a simple caption under each mod picture. It would be easy for me to set up - which is important. Just down load the picture then add a one or two sentence caption. It would also be easy for me to find all the 26S owner’s "mod" albums because ... they would all be in one spot.
I agree with you Walt it would be nice to have the ability to search on a particular model and find documentation about modifications other people have done to their boats. I really like this forum as well as trailersailors.com, for all the great dialogue that goes on specifically related to our boats. But unfortunately the ability to catalogue mods is not that great.
For those of you who are not aware, that other board, macgregorsailors.com, which most agree caters more to the motorsailor models X's & M's, does have a nice mods section. I think it has the desired features you mentioned Walt. Even though that site is frequented mostly by motorsailors, it's really for all Macgregor and Venture owners, but IMO there's usually not much interesting dialogue going on there about the older boats. But we can change that! If you look under the "Forum" heading, there is a special "Macgregor/Venture Discussion" forum. I like to check all three sites to see if there is any interesting discussions going on. Unfortunately there's usually not much going on with the older models there. So maybe at least we could all start using the "Mac Mods" archive there much more :dance:
Sometime ago I noticed there was a few, but very few mod postings of the older Mac's and Venture's, so I tried to encourage others to post their mods there. You can easily browse the "Mac Mods" section. If you create your own login, you get more capability. You can browse by model, year, category, and key words. I posted a bunch of my own mods there, look under 26S. You can even click on "My Mods" which will bring up a list of all your mods you posted.
So, if you haven't already done so, check it out! And please, post your mods.
Here's a couple examples of my mod's posted there.
http://www.macgregorsailors.com/modt/index.php?view=1275
http://www.macgregorsailors.com/modt/index.php?view=1369
