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Can a stock 26M be modified like the Pearl has been?

 

A lot of the rigging, deck hardware, and equipment can be retrofitted to any 26M, and some things even to older models. 

The keel system could be done, but would require structural reinforcement to the daggerboard trunk, and the keel bulb, daggerboard, and hardware would be quite expensive unless it ever became a production thing.  You also wouldn't ever get the boat as light as the Pearl, you'd still have the 300# of fixed internal ballast, and the structure of the Pearl is almost 200# lighter than stock.