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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 | 26S with an M asymmetrical Posted By: Bob s-v Watermark - Mac26S - Ottawa River - ON Date: 5/7/09 12:03p.m. Report: outside forum guidelines In Response To: Wow, I'd love to see some closeup pics of your setup, especially of this: (link) (pic) (Balazs (Mac26C GP, Alberta)) this sail is the factory stock asym. sail for an M (Doyle), it works on my S just fine, I moved the spinnaker halyard above the forestay hounds, tack is run through a block on the bow roller bail, allows adjustment from the cockpit, you need very light lines to fly this in light air, you can see an ATN spinnaker sock at the top of the sail, I have used this with my whisker pole a number of times as well, Bob

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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.