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Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:26 am
by kmclemore
Ken Cooke is still around. He still lives in Lexington, KY and is involved in an environmental group there and has a current LinkedIn as well. He also has an active Facebook page - indeed, he just posted today. On his Facebook page he has an entry from May 11, 2015 showing photos of his solar installation on his Mac 25, and on Jan 31, 2019 he posted on FB "The Solar Powered Boat you always wanted! I am working on a new solar powered "Sailboat" so need to pass the Solar Pontoon on to a fellow river adventurer."
Link to the FB search:
www.facebook.com/profile/1130934935/search/?q=macgregor
I would imagine you'd be able to contact him on FB if you're interested.
Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:34 am
by Inquisitor
Would someone mind poking him... maybe he'll rejoin here. I don't Facebook.
I spent way too many years with compartmentalized level security goons probing my arse. Also, too many people getting fired because of what's on their "Facebook". I only share information with people I care about... like you kind people here.
Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:45 am
by kmclemore
I feel a little odd contacting him for a third party, but you could quite easily make a fairly blank FB account and then delete it when finished with it.
Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:37 am
by Idiotfool
kmclemore wrote: ↑Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:26 am
Ken Cooke is still around. He still lives in Lexington, KY and is involved in an environmental group there and has a current LinkedIn as well. He also has an active Facebook page - indeed, he just posted today. On his Facebook page he has an entry from May 11, 2015 showing photos of his solar installation on his Mac 25, and on Jan 31, 2019 he posted on FB "The Solar Powered Boat you always wanted! I am working on a new solar powered "Sailboat" so need to pass the Solar Pontoon on to a fellow river adventurer."
Link to the FB search:
www.facebook.com/profile/1130934935/search/?q=macgregor
I would imagine you'd be able to contact him on FB if you're interested.
Interesting. His post here indicated he’d modified a 26X. Strange that he’d swap to a Mac 25...
Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:05 am
by kmclemore
Idiotfool wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:37 am
Interesting. His post here indicated he’d modified a 26X. Strange that he’d swap to a Mac 25...
Well, did you look at the photos on his FB page? Looks like a 25 to me.
Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 12:28 pm
by Inquisitor
kmclemore wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:05 am
Idiotfool wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:37 am
Interesting. His post here indicated he’d modified a 26X. Strange that he’d swap to a Mac 25...
Well, did you look at the photos on his FB page? Looks like a 25 to me.
Are we being punked?
Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:07 pm
by Idiotfool
SolarSailor6 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:08 am
I post this at great risk of criticism from true sailors on this forum.
I was looking for a "leisure cruising craft" for an inland river in a deep valley with little or no wind. (Kentucky River)
It had to have an efficient hull design, decent interior space and shallow draft for shoals and bank landings.
Of course the Macgregor X was it.
The Mac 25 wouldn’t be referred to as an X, right?
Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:03 pm
by kmclemore
Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:07 pm
by kmclemore
...and this is a screen shot of his FB entry regarding the boat.
Still think it's an X?
I do know the difference.
Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:54 am
by Inquisitor
I doubt he's trying to deceive... just not a Mac connoisseur.
Seriously... he's not a sailor or a go-fast motor cruiser. He's in a totally different world than most all of us.
Thanks for the pictures.
Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:48 am
by dlandersson
A highly modified X?
kmclemore wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:07 pm
...and this is a screen shot of his FB entry regarding the boat.
Still think it's an X?
I do know the difference.
Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:00 am
by Jimmyt
dlandersson wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:48 am
A highly modified X?
kmclemore wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:07 pm
...and this is a screen shot of his FB entry regarding the boat.
Still think it's an X?
I do know the difference.
So highly modified as to turn it into a 25. That boat is not, nor has it ever been, a 26X. There is something amok with this cheesecake.
Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:31 am
by WD
Just dropping this here for a bit...
Cheers
Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 6:07 pm
by Idiotfool
kmclemore wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:07 pm
...and this is a screen shot of his FB entry regarding the boat.
Still think it's an X?
I do know the difference.
Clearly, that’s not a 26x. The alternative to the OP simply being wrong about the identity of his boat is that he decided that the 26X wasn’t ideal for his needs, so he swapped out for a Mac 25. That’s where my mind went, which is why I said it was odd that he did such a trade. Since the OP said he traded out the two rudders for electric motors, I think he
was talking about a 26x. What he has, now, I dunno.
Re: No mast, I've gone solar...(With gas engine backup)
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 6:09 pm
by Idiotfool
WD wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:31 am
Just dropping this here for a bit...
Cheers
Nice. I would love to see the electric motors on back...
