Thanks, Dick. I'll see what I can track down. --Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:36 AM Subject: Freebird
The preparations and some of the voyage was documented in the S.California Santana monthly around 1984. Dick Honshells wrote: I'm guessing this journey is documented in the old Monty Newsletter. If not, I'd like to know more . . . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:10 AM Subject: Good Old Boat I believe it was Jerry's foreman who sailed "Freebird" a reduced cockpit volume M17 Dick Honshells wrote: The Montgomery 17' gets an honorable mention from Ted Brewer in the latest issue of "Good Old Boat". The segment is on page 47 from a comparison of trailersailers that follows an article on the Victoria 18'. Brewer compares the Victoria 18', the Cape Dory Typhoon and the Com-Pac 16CB. Ted writes, "It's obvious that the performance champion of the group is the Montgomery 17' with her long waterline, generous sail area, and modest ballast adding to the form stability of her beamy keel/centerboard hull." The segment has mistakes: It lists the M17's displacement at 1,500 lb. and its ballast at 500 lb. Well, basically, the M17 stats in the chart on page 47 vary several times from those on Nor'Sea's website. Also, the drawing of the "M17" used by "Good Old Boat" is actually the M23. Anyway, Brewer says none of the boats compared should venture out of sight of land and I know some would disagree with that, also. I recently re-read the M17 review in "Small Craft Advisor" and it repeats the Nor'Sea website claim that the M17 has sailed from California to Hawaii: But we established recently that this is a myth, didn't we? Was it Jerry M. who "sailed from Cape Hatteras to San Diego via the Panama Canal"? If not, then who? _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
