Built of epoxy and foam core, the Tattoo 22 will be light enough to tow, will sail quickly on the water and will achieve speeds up to 20 knots under power, Laura MacGregor Sharp said. Tattoo Yachts will produce a Tattoo 26-footer along the same lines of a MacGregor 26, and a new Tattoo 22-foot motorsailer. There, the couple established Tattoo Yachts. a city they said is reminiscent of the “old” Costa Mesa. They moved away from the area a few months ago, relocating to Stuart, Fla. The couple had been the MacGregor overseas distributors since 1990. He sold the 26-foot MacGregor molds to his daughter and her husband, Paul Sharp, several months ago. “It was time to do something different,” said MacGregor, who runs the business with his wife, Mary Lou. “It really gave me the incentive to get the whole fiberglass operation out of here.” “That’s one of the reasons that we thought about sending the whole production to Florida,” Roger MacGregor said.

MacGregor said he believed the smells associated with fiberglass boat-building would bother the new neighbors. The new three-story retirement facility that was built directly behind the plant’s mold shop made for an incompatible relationship. “Plus, they put a huge retirement home behind our molding shop.” “It was just a decision based on the fact that it is retirement time,” MacGregor said. But it was time to end the long run, Roger MacGregor said. One of the region’s longest-operating boat builders, MacGregor has built approximately 45,000 boats in its boatyard, located on Placentia Avenue in Costa Mesa. There, he built the business and designed the boat, as part of a college course.

He built the company into a thriving business based on a college project he began while attending Stanford Graduate School of Business to earn his MBA. In the early 1960s, Roger MacGregor opened his boat-building facility in Costa Mesa after leaving a job at Ford Motor Co. “They will still be (at the plant) the shop will just have a smaller footprint, because they are leasing out most of the factory.” “My parents have not retired: They are unstoppable,” Sharp said. However, the MacGregor name live on with the production of the MacGregor 70-footers, Roger MacGregor’s daughter, Laura MacGregor Sharp, assured The Log. The last MacGregor 26 came off the production line on April 24, signifying the end of an era for the best-selling sailboat. founder Roger MacGregor has ceased production of the craft and has turned his attention to the construction of custom-built 70-foot MacGregors. COSTA MESA - After 50 years of building the MacGregor 26 - the trailerable sailboat that gave many boaters their entry into sailing - MacGregor Yacht Co.

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