I'm happy you found a suitable Montgomery 15. I know you and your wife will enjoy her for years to come. I also appreciate your comments about Cruising World Magazine. It does seem that they only cater to the gold-plate crowd and have left the small boat sailor behind. I know that your comments are accurate and at the same time somewhat tongue-in-cheek :-) If you need any help or advise this is the place to ask. If I can help just give a call. Ho Ho Bob Eeg head floor sweeper at: Montgomeryboats.com/Norsea (949) 489-8227 Steve_McClellan@hmco.com wrote:
Hello Montgomery Folks!
My name is Steve and I'm here to join your club. Just show me where to sign. Some time ago, after doing a little research, my lovely wife and I determined that a Montgomery 15 was the boat we needed. (Want to cruise, no place to keep a big boat, no money to keep one in the water around here (Evanston, Illinois))
I had a subscription to the magazine "Cruising World" -- somehow I never could identify with all those rich people (no offense to all you good rich people out there!) with their 40 or 60 foot yachts, sailing the South Pacific (Sorry, but I have to WORK for a living). The one really good thing that magazine did for me was, one day I was paging through the way back of the issue, where the little black and white ads are, and there was an ad for Montgomery boats. I was intrigued by the idea of a "pocket cruiser" -- so I went to the Montgomery Marine website, and was immediately HOOKED. On their website was a link to the MSOG website. So I've been "lurking" on your mailing list for some time.
I've been braving the Big Lake (Michigan) in a little 14 foot Hobie Holder monohull for the last two years. (Those two to four foot waves (typical on a decent sailing day) can get pretty tiring in an open day sailor.) We took the Holder up to Wisconsin last summer to explore beautiful Castle Rock Lake for a week, and camp along it's shores in Buckhorn State Park.
Well last week we lucked into (I HOPE it will turn out to have been GOOD luck) a Montgomery 15 for $2,400. It was in Columbus Ohio, a 7 hour drive from the Chicago area where I live. Went out last weekend, gave it a quick lookover (no major problems immediately apparent -- some cleanup necessary) plopped down my money, and towed it all the way back here behind my lttle Saturn. (NO PROBLEM by the way, but I was definitely using all four cylinders) Left here Saturday at 4:00 AM and was back by 8:00 PM -- 15 hours of driving and 1 hour of bargaining later.
I HOPE I got a good deal -- there seems to be some water down in the keel sump area and some under the floor (between outer and inner hulls?) DIRECTLY underneath the porta-pottie. This seems related very closely to the problems that I've read about that "Connie" Benneck, Natalie & Mike ("Junior") and Lacey Hartje have reported, with leakage in the centerboard trunk area. I hope I'm up to the task of fixing it -- I know I'll be asking for some advice from you all.
Anyway -- great to be here. BUT NOW I CAN'T WAIT TO GET THE THING IN THE WATER! (Gotta get right with State of Illinois first, for one thing).
More another time. Heigh ho!
Steve
PS: Oh, by the way, it's hull #152, made in 5/81
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