Ha ha - raspberrying will just add to the general dampness around here anyway. I'll settle for an annoying smug grin.
I really have more of a cruiser's outlook on sailing - speed doesn't really enter my mind much. My dad really cracked me up with his cruiser mentality. We'd be out for and evening sail, and he'd suggest going just to "that interesting island", and then "wow the wind is so great - how about the lighthouse island...", then "how far is Sitka from here, anyway..." ha ha. On another topic - we are trying to get a trailer we bought modified for Ceto, and we would be so grateful if someone could measure the width of the bottom of the keel for us. (The beam-to-beam width at the thickest part) Our dock is slated for demolition and rebuilding next month, so we've got to get to work! Thanks! Danelle Landis "Ceto" M17 #378 Ketchikan, AK http://web.mac.com/anniesark9/Site/Sailing_Ceto.html ----- Original Message ---- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 6:40:22 AM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Soggy in Ketchikan Save the raspberries. They don't travel far over water and usually get blown back into the slider's cockpit, because the targeted bolt-roper is to windward and in a forward position. -----Original Message----- From: Ronnie Keeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 8:08 am Subject: Re: M_Boats: Soggy in Ketchikan Danielle, Nice to hear you are alive and well ,tough soggy. Now that you have had a chance to have slugs put on Ceto's main as I suggested (and started a storm of controversy on the site), I hope you will join me in a collective rasberry to those who are willing to endure feeding a boltrope to gain 1/10th knot of upwind speed in light air. When I suggested doing it yourself, I forgot that not everyone has the tools, time or patience to "do-it-yourself" so, I am glad Bob advised finding a sailmaker. Having a reasonably priced sailmaker in the wings is invaluable. There are many types of sailors and when I was an agile young man with teenage daughters to crew for me, I was a "Boy Racer/ boltroper" in the Snipe class where every 1/10th knot was important. Now that I am an old, hobbled up singlehanded cruiser and daysailer, I will sacrifice that marginal bit of speed for convenience and safety (I can set and strike my main and jib from the security of the cockpit). One makes a choice of what kind of sailor one wants to be and equips the boat to suit his/her needs. Life is full of choices. Happy sailing Ron M17 #14, fixed keel Griselda> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:31:20 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Subject: M_Boats: Soggy in Ketchikan> > Hi all,> > I am back checking email again - I got so behind with three sets of out-of-town guests all through July! I'm so glad you guys were checking my website. I do have new photos to put on there - I will get them up tomorrow - I've been avoiding the computer, knowing how much mail I'd have waiting!> > When my Dad and his wife were visiting for a couple of weeks, we got out sailing several times, and he was delighted with "Ceto"! Being a very seasoned sailor, and skeptical of the worth of a small boat, he was impressed by the M17's abilities. He sailed her into the dock a couple of times, as he detests starting up the outboard, and he just *had* to try it. We tried it with the genoa one evening , then the main the second. He was so sold on a smaller sailboat, I had to give him my book on sailing small cruisers which he couldn't put down. > > Another thing I've done in the last month of avoiding the computer is that I found a sailmaker here in town, as Bob on the list suggested, and the sailmaker put slugs on my mainsail, and repaired a small burnhole in its luff for only $43.00. I was astounded, as I would have paid twice that to have avoided doing it myself. The sail is SO much easier to handle now!!! The difference has been huge, and with that old soft sail and my rusty abilities, I can't tell any difference in the performance. Just a lot fewer four letter words being tossed into the wind, is all!> > Our weather has been HORRIBLE for the last three weeks - pouring rain 24/7 - cold and not even decent enough wind to be worth getting the sails drenched. I haven't sailed at all this month. The weather here is often this way though, I just go into denial when it's nice. > > I'll stay caught up now, and send a note when I get new photos up.> > Thanks for thinking of me!> > Danelle Landis> "Ceto" M17 #378> Ketchikan, AK> http://web.mac.com/anniesark9/Site/Sailing_Ceto.html> > > ----- Original Message ----> From: Howard Audsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <[email protected]>> Sent: Friday, August 8, 2008 7:18:27 AM> Subject: M_Boats: Danielle?> > > Have we heard from Danielle in Alaska lately?> > I was going to check to see if she had updated her website, but I no > longer have it.> > > _______________________________________________> http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats> > > > > _______________________________________________> http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _________________________________________________________________ Be the filmmaker you always wanted to beearn how to burn a DVD with Windows. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/108588797/direct/01/ ___________ ____________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
