Hi Keith, welcome to the world of Monty's. We live in Port Townsend and just got our M17' Lily in the water this year. Ours is a 1981' hull #336 and she is also a dream come true. My partner has been sailing awhile, but I am a novice and "Lily" is a wonderful teacher. Dana Kovac Sent from my iPad On Sep 2, 2013, at 12:29 PM, "Keith R. Martin" <keith.richard.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello folks,
My name is Keith Martin, I live in Burnaby, BC, Canada, ( a suburb of Vancouver). After a year long search I am thrilled to have just completed purchase and brought home to Canada my dream boat a 1982 M17, hull # 353, "Serenity".
I am an electronics engineer by profession and have been a sailing enthusiast for a good part of my life. I served the last 10 years of a 25 year tenure with Scouts Canada running a Sea Scout Troop with a fleet ranging from 8 ft sabots up to a 24 ft fixed keel sloop.
Having "done my time" with the Troop, I had been looking over the past year for an affordable, but CAPABLE boat for personal use to do some solo coastal cruising here in BC ( my wife Liz is a little like a cat, she likes to drink water, not so crazy about riding on it so I am going to be on my own a good bit of the time).
After months of research, a lot of it available thanks to this strong Monty user community I set my sights on an M17. After 8 months of looking I found "Serenity".
A little bit about "Serenity"... From what I gather she has spent a good part of her life in Arizona, sailing fresh water, with a few trips to the Sea of Cortez. The owners that I purchased her from have been sailing her on Lake Pleasant AZ just north of Phoenix. The owners previous to them were apparently located in Tuscon AZ. She is the 4 berth version and appears to be in nearly stock configuration with no modifications.
I am looking forward to getting her out in the chuck for a couple of shakedown day sails in the near future.
That's all for now, I just wanted to introduce myself and to say thank you to this group of active owners who have provided so much information online, it really made a huge impact on my due diligence and selection process...
Keith M17-353, Serenity
-- Keith R. Martin, P.Eng.