MacGregorSailors.com

http://shop.bwyachts.com/default.asp These folks deal with OEM items for old Ventures. Give them a call. I highly recommend you measure your own rig and know your potential sail size before taking sizes from others. You just never know whats been done to that old boat over the years. You also need t...

You're welcome.

And welcome to the boards - I like sausage and pepperoni with lots of onions please.

It really depends on the depth of the waters you plan to frequent.

In the often skinny waters I sail in the kick up rudder is an absolute necessity...

Don't think you are bound to an original Mac mast because you are not. I lost my mast and replaced it with a mast from a much bigger boat. Its quite a bit heavier but it works just fine. The new mast only need be similiar size to work. I did have to modify the tabernacle a little. I found mine on Cr...

Many of us have no trouble shooting thru the hull of a Mac.

I slapped my transducer tight in a blob of plumbers putty
and pressed it hard into the floor under the Vberth.

Works fine.

With thru bolts that are sealed to keep water out..... I don't know how that can be done if the bolt head and fitting on the outside has sealant on it, you have to keep that fastener still and tighten from below, other wise it will leak. I know from much experience that improper bedding of deck fast...

ooofff you guys have expensive tastes. Once my rubber baby finishes biting the dust I was going to buy a weed sprayer and paint it black.......

I'm with Freedom. I have essentially the same motor - only its a 1978 Evinrude 15 Long Shaft 'lectric start. I certainly don't need 15 horse and I definitely no longer want a hundred pound motor. I have to lift it around all of the time. I've been eyeing up an extra long shaft 6 HP Tohatsu, they are...

The horror!

Think I'll stick to my industrial acrylic enamel from Ace.


And you have convinced me to bush my lower blade pivot......

I'm with Hamin. Figure out what you want and rig it your way.

Almost nothing on my old Venture is rigged the way it was built,
I'm setup for single handing in big wind...

You have a transom drain plug?

Don't see many of those on sailboats!

A Venture doesn't really have a bilge - just the floor you stand on.

Fix 'er up!
Stop the leaks, get some sails (that was my largest single expense).

I like sausage pepperoni and lots of onion....

vizwhiz wrote:Oh how awesome! With a turbo entabluator, your cardinal grammeters will be synchronized!!

Synchronized cardinal grammeters are well known to cause discombobulated keelson rivets.
Everybody knows that (eyeroll)

And turbo entabluators went out with astrocronoplaaids in 1872.

Get with it!

I'd be happy to share how NOT to do it...

Sooooo, after reading all of this and applying deep thought and consideration of the views allowed minus the ones I dismiss outright and adding the ones with highest post count I'm down to heads I attach and tails I don't.....


I love forums.....

I'll give the opposing view: you're screwed.

Sleep with an umbrella for a season as you re-bed 300 fasteners.....