MacGregorSailors.com

Ever wonder about the story behind a sale? Here's a 2012 suddenly "for sale".

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2012-Mac ... 17&vxp=mtr

looks like seller answered your question in first paragraph, " my life changed" could be a thousand different changes, death of partner, won 100 millon lotto and bought 100 foot Oyster, who knows.

"and I don't have the time to sail any longer."
How about a newborn?

You see this a lot. People buy boats with some kind of fantasy of what it's like and find out boating (or sailing) is not their thing.

--Russ

Filipino isn't a language.

I figure i have a 50/50 chance of having a more honest version of this post in a year or so.
I've never really been into boating. Don't know if it'll last yet.

People buy boats with a fantasy going about sailing off into the sunset .
Then reality sets in .
They don't have time to use the boat
There is always something that needs fixing .
Boating is expensive .
The wife/husband doesn't like it and resents putting money into it .

So the marinas wind up full of derelict boats , or they sit in the yard on the trailer , full of leaves .
Until the owner faces up to the fact , the boat isn't getting used , I might as well sell it .

This is how I got my boat - sat for 2+ years on the hard.

" The wife/husband doesn't like it and resents putting money into it."

Gypsy Life wrote:People buy boats with a fantasy going about sailing off into the sunset .
Then reality sets in .
They don't have time to use the boat
There is always something that needs fixing .
Boating is expensive .
The wife/husband doesn't like it and resents putting money into it .

So the marinas wind up full of derelict boats , or they sit in the yard on the trailer , full of leaves .
Until the owner faces up to the fact , the boat isn't getting used , I might as well sell it .

Gypsy Life wrote:People buy boats with a fantasy going about sailing off into the sunset .
Then reality sets in .
They don't have time to use the boat
There is always something that needs fixing .
Boating is expensive .
The wife/husband doesn't like it and resents putting money into it .

So the marinas wind up full of derelict boats , or they sit in the yard on the trailer , full of leaves .
Until the owner faces up to the fact , the boat isn't getting used , I might as well sell it .

There are 2 at the local cheap marina... One has so much leaf litter in it, it has composted to dirt and has a nice layer of moss growing and some trees starting. It's unsalvagable. Has a hole in the gunwale, it bet it's full of rain to the galley. But I bet a cheap mother will try to shine and sell it (minus the collapsed trailers). The other is filthy but probably salvageable with a lot of work. A bunch of other boats in similar condition.
Tires flat and rotten. Boats a mess. Abandoned. Was thinking of asking the harbor aster if I could scrounge them; rudders and centerr board are nice spares. At least eBay guy probably recognized it early.

When I give up a boat, I do it with style.

My last boat is for sale because Poseidon rejected it.

Literally. Tossed it clean out of the water onto the Pier.

OK. Most of it. He took his tithe - the sternmost 10% of the boat (motor, rudder, tiller, pushpit, transom) was ground to dust on the pier wall first. Then he tossed the rest clean out of the water.

I'm now trying to sell it for the price of the trailer.



(Relax! It wasn't a Mac.)

Boat are full of intensions good and bad.....a lot don't ever get used much....and I have to admit not using our enough.But hey really enjoyed myself getting the way I like it mod wise...but selling no way. The other day saw my last trailersailer San Juan...Bruce Kirby design sitting very forlorn in a yard obviously not used for years...really hurt someone didn't look after it...so much so I tried to buy it...luckily the owner didn't reply...would have had 2 boats and NO wife

Boat are full of intensions good and bad.....a lot don't ever get used much....and I have to admit not using our enough.But hey really enjoyed myself getting the way I like it mod wise...but selling no way. The other day saw my last trailersailer San Juan...Bruce Kirby design sitting very forlorn in a yard obviously not used for years...really hurt someone didn't look after it...so much so I tried to buy it...luckily the owner didn't reply...would have had 2 boats and NO wife

"NO wife" is the only way I would have realized my dream of being a sailor. My is too big of an investment/project/hobby to not include the "love of my life". Neither my wife, nor any girlfriend, was interested in sharing my love of the water or the boating experience. It wasn't until I found myself single and too fed-up to continue dating that I went for it. So far, I think I'm better off.
Capt Smitty

I guess I am one of the lucky few , whose wife shares my love of boating .
We are on the adventure , we have dreamed about for at least 20 years . Its had its tough times , but she hangs in there !

A Mac is one of the few boats that actually can work the other way.

My use has dropped down to three Cape trips, one WNY trip, and a couple Hudson river trips per year - while my weekends are filled with Harpoon sailing.

A close friend of mine was thinking of dumping his Mac, but then a cottage on the lake came into the family - the Mac being perfect for that.

That is wierd - in picture 3 he has the main neatly flaked and it looks like there is a female sitting next to him in the cockpit under a Bimini -
Picture 2 he has not even unfurled the headsail and the main is pulled up sloppy - (too loose) yet he has the fenders neatly stowed off deck in the spreaders

It's does not look like the rig is being piloted by a rank amateur - perhaps a power boater - not a sailor.

And who puts a furler on a working jib?? The lines on the head sail say stock working jib (based on the tracks) I thought all the furler rigs were Genoas? Is it possible the reason there is no headsail in the photos is because it did not work when he tried to use it? (If it's a furled Genoa it's not gonna work rigged like that).

The boat looks loaded with compass, shorepower, big motor - Hmmmmm I think perhaps a power boater wanted to take a stab at sailing. We know how that often ends up the first time the inclineometer hits 35 degrees.

You have a really good eye for details.

BOAT wrote:That is wierd - in picture 3 he has the main neatly flaked and it looks like there is a female sitting next to him in the cockpit under a Bimini -
Picture 2 he has not even unfurled the headsail and the main is pulled up sloppy - (too loose) yet he has the fenders neatly stowed off deck in the spreaders

It's does not look like the rig is being piloted by a rank amateur - perhaps a power boater - not a sailor.

And who puts a furler on a working jib?? The lines on the head sail say stock working jib (based on the tracks) I thought all the furler rigs were Genoas? Is it possible the reason there is no headsail in the photos is because it did not work when he tried to use it? (If it's a furled Genoa it's not gonna work rigged like that).

The boat looks loaded with compass, shorepower, big motor - Hmmmmm I think perhaps a power boater wanted to take a stab at sailing. We know how that often ends up the first time the inclineometer hits 35 degrees.

Yeah - and look at the list of stuff he has on it - it's LOADED! Even the Chartplotter and water system - and it's got bottom paint.

34 grand is a good deal, but if the guy is desperate and you got him for 30K it would be a STEAL! Someone who wants a MAC should jump at this one. Offer the guy less than 30 and work up from there -

(A brand new MAC is 23 plus motor is 28 - I would start there.) Never know - he might take it.