Dear all, First of all, thank you very much for the overwhelming replies and suggestions. I lowered the mast over the weekend and fixed the problems, but not really to my satisfactory... 1. There was debris of metal in the groove, half way up the mast. this caused the slugs to get stuck at that poin...

I had the etec 60 also straight from the factory. At first there seemed to be no speed at all (max speed 5 knts), very good service from the Evinrude dealer in Dubai, they immediately saw that the propeller was not the right one for a :macm: , they changed it to a bigger one, free of charge despite ...

Dear all, Thank you very much for the very warm welcome! I did not realize by buying a Macgregor, I would join in such a warm community. Some of the advises, I already tried after my first sail. The halyard indeed seems to look for that bolt in the top to get stuck. I had the mast down and visually ...

Dear all, I recently bought a MacGregor 26M, new from the factory. I'm having a lot of difficulties raising and lowering the main sail. It seems to get stuck up the mast. I'm pointing the boat directly in the wind, to prevent any load on the sail. It takes 4 men and a lot of strength and effort to p...