Thanks Stan, Do you know; is there much difference between the 81 and a newer boat. Any desireable upgrades?? I'm debating hard right now between updating the motor mount to that nice Garhauer unit and using the 4 hp 2 stroke I got with her, or sticking with the mount thats on "Just Little" and getting about a 50# thrust Minn-Kota electric.
Hello Craig, Well......who'd a thought I was going to stumble onto one of these within 30 miles of my house :-) ??? When we bought the Flicka, last winter, we knew we were going to have to keep her in bigger water. We didn't yet know though that, that water would end up being in Kentucky. We have a Fatty Knees with a sailing rig too, but, although she seems to be quite an able sailer, she isn't quite big enough for two to spend much time on. Our first boat was a Rhodes 22, which we really liked. She was kind of half way between our Flicka and the M-15. Not quite big enough to do a long term live-aboard thing, but a bit too big to use for quick day trips. Then one day I was just surfing around Yachtworld.com and I stumbled across this Flicka out in Seattle. Well, long story short, 10 days later we owned her. We had actually planned to keep the R 22, but somebody asked me what I wanted for her and I gave them a price. Again, who'd a thought, they took it. Ooops, no boat to use close to the house any more!!! So that got me started looking again for something a little smaller and a little less expensive. Then somebody else stumbled onto this Monty within a half hour of my house and asked me to go look at it for him. I went and looked and found It would probably be considered a bit of a project to get her looking nice, but was sailable the way she sat. Not really wanting a project, he wasn't interested. I ended up with her instead. He ended up buying a boat in better shape, also an 81, about 30 miles from his house. Funny how things work out sometimes. :-) Rik On Wed, Apr 07 2004 08:30 pm, Stanley Winarski wrote: > Rik, > > Congratulations on your "new" Monty "Just Little"! > > I'm rather partial to the 1981s. > > Stan Winarski > > M-15, # 177 (1981) Carol II > > > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
