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Home Forums Search Trailer Sailor Roster Chandlery Events Classifieds Resources About TSBB SBO Sites	Instructions/FAQ | Rules & Etiquette | Edit Profile | Forum Login View Thread | Post Response | Return to Index | Read Prev Msg | Read Next Msg | Believe it or not, its the factory std issue. Posted By: Sam Hunter, '93 Mac26S, Atlanta & Pensacola Date: 5/7/09 10:20a.m. Report: outside forum guidelines In Response To: Nice asymmetrical! (link) (pic) (Balazs (Mac26C GP, Alberta)) Flies well, pulls hard, easy to handle. If you look closely at the pic, I have moved the tack to the bow pulpit and the head/halyard attachment several feet up the mast. Gives me more flexibility. The tack is on a 3:1 adjustable from the cockpit. It will pull well surprisingly close to the wind when the tack is pulled down close to the pulpit. In this pic, I've let it luff a bit too much, but it does hold a good shape most of the time. On the same trip this pic is from, we managed to kind of walk on past a Mac "X" owned by a good friend we don't get to see very often. This, and "that big sail out front" got his wife's attention, who declared, "We've got to get one of those!" He thanked me and bought me a beer that evening!

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This may be one of my truly wierd ideas!!! A bow boarding ladder. -- Sam Hunter, '93 Mac26S, Atlanta & Pensacola -- 5/3/09 4:02p.m.

Stowed / Up position -- Sam Hunter, '93 Mac26S, Atlanta & Pensacola -- 5/3/09 4:11p.m.

Like the ladder a lot! -- Scott Widmier, Mac26D, Kennesaw, GA -- 5/4/09 4:24a.m.

Sam, request for top view pic -- MrBill_26D_fll -- 5/4/09 7:09a.m.

OK, I'll try to get one tomorrow -- Sam Hunter, '93 Mac26S, Atlanta & Pensacola -- 5/4/09 5:10p.m.

OK, this one is from above -- Sam Hunter, '93 Mac26S, Atlanta & Pensacola -- 5/5/09 10:49a.m.

And a view from the front... -- Sam Hunter, '93 Mac26S, Atlanta & Pensacola -- 5/5/09 10:54a.m.

thanks, and more questions -- mr bill -- 5/5/09 2:26p.m.

OK, I'll try to answer... (and notes on some things that did NOT work) -- Sam Hunter, '93 Mac26S, Atlanta & Pensacola -- 5/5/09 4:45p.m.

Oh, yeah. I am also carrying the additional req'd CG stuff -- Sam Hunter, '93 Mac26S, Atlanta & Pensacola -- 5/5/09 4:57p.m.

Very Nice! -- mr bill -- 5/6/09 2:27p.m.

Thanks for the comments... And a philosophical meandering... -- Sam Hunter, '93 Mac26S, Atlanta & Pensacola -- 5/7/09 5:51a.m.

rear anchor roller -- MrBill_26D_fll -- 5/7/09 7:34a.m.

Not sure if reversing engine / ladder is easier in/out, BUT... -- Sam Hunter, '93 Mac26S, Atlanta & Pensacola -- 5/7/09 8:21a.m.

Nice asymmetrical! -- Balazs (Mac26C GP, Alberta) -- 5/7/09 8:49a.m.

classic shute dim's -- MrBill_26D_fll -- 5/7/09 9:48a.m.

 Believe it or not, its the factory std issue.   -- Sam Hunter, '93 Mac26S, Atlanta & Pensacola -- 5/7/09 10:20a.m.

Wow, I'd love to see some closeup pics of your setup, especially of this: -- Balazs (Mac26C GP, Alberta) -- 5/7/09 10:45a.m.

26S with an M asymmetrical -- Bob s-v Watermark - Mac26S - Ottawa River - ON -- 5/7/09 12:03p.m.

River boat -- Keith Nuttle -- 5/4/09 8:58a.m.

Actually, those front ramps on riverboats is where I got the original idea. -- Sam Hunter, '93 Mac26S, Atlanta & Pensacola -- 5/4/09 5:08p.m.