David: There are some nice LED lights coming out, and the prices are coming down. Don't need much battery for them. --Gary Hyde 2005 M17 sailboat #637 'Hydeaway 2' On Jan 12, 2009, at 12:18 PM, David C. Patterson wrote:
Gary, thanks for the note about your towing. I am looking into trailer brakes, of course, and do wish I had a more powerful engine. I will not be crossing any high passes, like those in Colorado, with my current vehicle. I can get back and forth to the reservoir (Chatfield, south of Denver) I sailed on last year, pretty workably. But I am hemmed in to the west by the Rockies, as I mentioned. Most of the season all I must do is two flat miles from the yard to the ramp. (I do like the 4 wheel drive at the ramp. I watch huge pickups spin their wheels with small boats.) There is probably a used V6 vehicle of some kind in my future. May the sailing season start soon. Still, though, my off-season list for my old boat is pretty long, now including bow chocks, sail battens, trailer winch cable, trailer keel roller, check valves for cockpit drains, running light replacement (though no battery yet), some other sail repair, galley pump replacement, etc., etc. I think the cosmetics will have to wait. As one sailor in the northwest puts the steps: 1) safe boat, 2) comfortable boat, 3) pretty boat. Clearly I am still working on the safe boat step. Most of which actually depends on me getting more sailing experience. On to season two's sailing. Again, thanks to all on the list.
David Patterson Cloud Girl 1985 M17 #393 galley model
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Message: 2 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:31:24 -0800 From: Gary M Hyde <gmhyde1@mac.com> Subject: Re: M_Boats: Pulling an M17 with a Subaru is workable if few grades To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <811F3BCB-AC24-4366-8057-02E4D5CE72CA@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
I pull my M17 with a turbo Subaru Forester and have surge disk brakes on the trailer. It works very well, even crossing the Cascade mountains. But I wouldn't tow it without the trailer brakes. They were a $500 add on, I think.
--Gary Hyde 2005 M17 sailboat #637 'Hydeaway 2'
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