Tell me about macs and privateers

[bootz]

Hello all you sailors !
I am a new member. I would like some help from anyone that is willing to take the time to respond. I appreciate any and all input. I had pretty well decided on a 26 d . How ever I saw a kenner privateer 26 WOW! What a looker. I know that the kenner is not a trailerable rig anything like a Mac but I still am looking. Please any input about these boats would help.
I want something that I can take to open water. So cal, Texas gulf.

Thanks in advance to you all!

 

[MrBill_FLL]

http://www.privateer26.org/

apples and oranges...

I got nothing on the privateer... you got questions on the D?

 

[rgranger]

Well... I started with a sailing dingy. Thought I wanted a pocket cruiser so I bought a Mac V21. It was nice but too small. Moved up to a Coronado 25. It was a true cruiser with lots of space inside, heavy and solid in strong winds etc. But now it was at a marina and I could not take it with me to new places. Nor could I work on it a little bit at a time (like the mac on a trailer) since it was an hour away from my home. So now I have a Mac V222. A bigger Mac would have been nice but I got a tremendous deal on this one. I can take this one places I could not take the Coronado and I can tinker with it in my back yard.

So.... how do you see yourself using the boat. Are you going to go on a one or two longer trips each year or do you see yourself weekending it?

If you are a weekender I'd go with the trailerable boat. If not then I'd go with something more livable.

I discovered that I'm a weekender (maybe a 4 day weekend here and there) so a trailerable boat is for me. Maybe someday I'll get a 26d or such?

2 cents.

 

[timebandit]

Kinna small for a 32 foot boat, at least that is what the marina is going to charge you for.

It's is a long sail from Southern California to the Texas Gulf.

 

[Freedom77]

WE had a V222 as our fourth boat. (addict) We used to sail to Catalina from Cabirllo Beach in San Pedro every year and drop anchor at Avalon for a week and do nothing (maybe a little drinking) I now have a V25 which I have hauled as far north as Biritish Coumbia, As far South as Ensenda Mexico and all points in between. I Live in Las Vegas now and feel sorry for all the Marina locked boats on a lake which is slowly drying up. It's a tough choice but for my money I will always have a trailerable. Fair winds, Old Salt...

 

[Freedom77]

P.S. from Old Salt. Compute the cost of a slip and maintenance to the cost of your driveway, Fair Winds...

 

[beamreach]

There was a privateer docked in our marina years ago when it was a marina before the relators bought it out for condo construction. Slip fee back then was sixty a month. The privateer was the last boat I would ever want to have. It was like what you might see at Disney when they brought out the cannons and sunk the pirate. Of course there was no comparison since she was docked next to an allied seawind ketch on one side and a pearson triton on the other. These were and still are REAL sailboats. I knew the triton owner. He tied himself in the cockpit during a hurricane a hundred miles offshore and had his wife tie herself in a setee berth and rode it out bare poled. I can't see that kenner doing that.

Freedom 77, you are right on! Slip fees are now over $350 a month in my area and Macs sailed good back then and still do! I deposit a slip fee into a savings account every month. My mac was paid for a long time ago on saved slip fees!