I'm happy you found a suitable Montgomery 15. I know you and
your wife will enjoy her for years to come.
I also appreciate your comments about Cruising World Magazine.
It does seem that they only cater to the gold-plate crowd and
have left the small boat sailor behind.
I know that your comments are accurate and at the same time somewhat
tongue-in-cheek :-)
If you need any help or advise this is the place to ask. If I can
help just give a call.
Ho Ho
Bob Eeg
head floor sweeper at:
Montgomeryboats.com/Norsea
(949) 489-8227
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello Montgomery Folks!
>
> My name is Steve and I'm here to join your club. Just show me where to
> sign. Some time ago, after doing a little research, my lovely wife and I
> determined that a Montgomery 15 was the boat we needed. (Want to cruise, no
> place to keep a big boat, no money to keep one in the water around here
> (Evanston, Illinois))
>
> I had a subscription to the magazine "Cruising World" -- somehow I never
> could identify with all those rich people (no offense to all you good rich
> people out there!) with their 40 or 60 foot yachts, sailing the South
> Pacific (Sorry, but I have to WORK for a living). The one really good
> thing that magazine did for me was, one day I was paging through the way
> back of the issue, where the little black and white ads are, and there was
> an ad for Montgomery boats. I was intrigued by the idea of a "pocket
> cruiser" -- so I went to the Montgomery Marine website, and was immediately
> HOOKED. On their website was a link to the MSOG website. So I've been
> "lurking" on your mailing list for some time.
>
> I've been braving the Big Lake (Michigan) in a little 14 foot Hobie Holder
> monohull for the last two years. (Those two to four foot waves (typical
> on a decent sailing day) can get pretty tiring in an open day sailor.) We
> took the Holder up to Wisconsin last summer to explore beautiful Castle
> Rock Lake for a week, and camp along it's shores in Buckhorn State Park.
>
> Well last week we lucked into (I HOPE it will turn out to have been GOOD
> luck) a Montgomery 15 for $2,400. It was in Columbus Ohio, a 7 hour drive
> from the Chicago area where I live. Went out last weekend, gave it a quick
> lookover (no major problems immediately apparent -- some cleanup necessary)
> plopped down my money, and towed it all the way back here behind my lttle
> Saturn. (NO PROBLEM by the way, but I was definitely using all four
> cylinders) Left here Saturday at 4:00 AM and was back by 8:00 PM -- 15
> hours of driving and 1 hour of bargaining later.
>
> I HOPE I got a good deal -- there seems to be some water down in the keel
> sump area and some under the floor (between outer and inner hulls?)
> DIRECTLY underneath the porta-pottie. This seems related very closely to
> the problems that I've read about that "Connie" Benneck, Natalie & Mike
> ("Junior") and Lacey Hartje have reported, with leakage in the centerboard
> trunk area. I hope I'm up to the task of fixing it -- I know I'll be
> asking for some advice from you all.
>
> Anyway -- great to be here. BUT NOW I CAN'T WAIT TO GET THE THING IN THE
> WATER! (Gotta get right with State of Illinois first, for one thing).
>
> More another time. Heigh ho!
>
> Steve
>
> PS: Oh, by the way, it's hull #152, made in 5/81
>
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