Rick & Debora: Thanks for the nice photos and for coming on the San Juan cruise. Hope to see you again at the next one! --Gary Hyde 2005 M17 #637 sailboat 'Hydeaway 2' On Jun 21, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Richard Everett wrote:
Hi guys,
We just got back Saturday afternoon from our trip to the San Juan Islands with the Montgomery group (huge thanks to Larry for herding the cats and setting this all up). We had an awesome time and met so many nice Montgomery owners and their boats. This was our first time seeing the M23 (impressive and huge) and the M15 (equally impressive to see two people comfortably sleeping on this pocket cruiser). We also went from zero overnight trips on our M17 to eight nights, and it was not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be (I am 6'7"). We kept up pretty well with the rest of the group also, even though we were one of the few M17 boats with 2 people onboard. I think we also win smallest outboard award (2.5hp Yamaha) but it pushes the boat at 4.5 to 5 kts in calm water. We tried to sail as much as possible anyway. At one point we were actually keeping pace with the M23 Faith and staying ahead of M17 Corndog. I had to rag Larry about this over the FRS but then he pulled out the rest of his 150 and sailed past us :-(
We have uploaded a bunch of unedited pictures to http://www.eidolonyacht.com/sanjuanislands2009 for you to enjoy. These are just a raw upload of all the pictures with many similar shots. If you click on a thumbnail you will get the full image. Note that it is really hard to get a stable non- blur shot when close hauled. :-) Hopefully others will upload some shots of our boat as sadly we have never had a picture taken of her while we were under sail.
We hope the rest of the Montgomery group continuing the trip into Canada has a great time and fair weather. Thanks again for letting us cruise with you.
Rick and Debora M17 #635 Eidolon
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