Those are GREAT sailboats. I'm envious. They also make an okay travel trailer. 
Yeah, they sure do work as a travel trailer. Nowadays mine only ever gets towed down the hill from the state park boat lot where I keep it to the launch ramps and then back, but one stalwart fellow somewhere up in the Dakotas hauls his all the way on down to Florida every year, overnighting inside along the way. Once down in Florida he then sets off for the Bahamas until the coming hurricane season chases him back to the mainland.
Thing is, Salty Bob type "real sailors", manly men with bowline knots in their pubes who dress up like the Gorton's fisherman (though strangely enough seldom ever seem to leave the marina), often make fun of those 26X or later 26M Macgregor hybrid "power-sailers", calling 'em "Clorox bottles". I adore mine though, as do most owners. For me it's just the ticket for the shoally and shallow Potomac and Chesapeake Bay, seeing as how it draws like only 7 inches of water with its swing keel up. Also, with that 50 hp Honda outboard and an up-on-plane speed of about 20 knots, I can scoot on down to the actual Chesapeake, about 80 miles, in about four hours or so, however the winds may blow. In my equally awesome, adorable and unimpeachably "salty and traditional" little Com-Pac 16 (
shown here with its big sister Mac in background), the same trip at maybe 4 to 7 knots with fair winds would be a multi-night undertaking, even if I relied on its nifty little Mercury 2.5 horsepower 2-stroker kicker motor.
Funnily enough, the Macgregor Sailors Forum is rather similar in its generally helpful, supportive and non-persnickety tone to this one. I suppose this may stem from the fact that both vehicles, Macs and certainly Bullets, are "compromises" of a sort. All aboard are well aware of that and just trying to make the best of it. A Mac hybrid isn't the greatest sailboat, nor is it the finest and fastest motorboat, but the fact that it does both even tolerably well is good enough, and much can be done to its basically blank canvas to improve the breed. By the same token, the Bullet may not be the fastest off the mark or even the finest built motorcycle on the planet, but it does offer some certain special visceral "something" other bikes utterly lack. So that's good enough. I've found that some vehicle forums, focusing as they may on perhaps more fully-formed or (allegedly) reliable vehicles can be awfully snooty or even insulting. That recent post here about one of us being dressed down on some BMW forum or other for going out on a little solo jaunt in the midst of our current Wuhan Flu woes, even though it's perfectly legal where he lives, is a case in point. Can you imagine that occurring here?
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