Great spelling Stan, Stan ________________________________ From: Stan Susman <stanpfa@pacbell.net> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 10:33 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: M6'8" Dinghy-ology story Back when I was a dumb kid, you know way before I was a dumb adult, I borrowed a camouflaged 6'8 dingy from a gullible boat builder in Costa Mesa . It was built really light but I needed it for a trip to Catalina to get to shore where the girls were. We pushed the old half sinking Kettenburg PC with a ten HP Merc. outboard that ran like a banshie. One morning the bay was absolutely mirror glassy and we really wished we had a motor for the dink as we were about a mile from where the pancakes and eggs lived . Tom the owner of the PC was down below, looked like a pile of dirty, wet clothes with a set of Ray Bans leaning against them said"take the Merc. Until then we wondered if he was dead. We thought that motor would tear the transom right out of the boat, or the dink would flip and the prop would eat us up alive. we soon found that we could crank the motor full blast, clime forward to flatten the boat and steer buy leaning the direction you want to go, it all worked great and it planned like it was made to do so. We got a ticket for going 35 mph in the anchorage but the harbor master was full of it, we only went 27mph. The boat builder never really hassled me about the bazillion spider web cracks in the gel coat, go figure. Stan ________________________________ From: "bownez@juno.com" <bownez@juno.com> To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 8:48 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Dinghy-ology Correction Hi Connie, Great to hear from you, as always!I just acquired a 1972 Evinrude "Mate" 2hp outboard from a fishing buddy. I got her running and am going to try it on my M6.8. I also like the idea of swimming noodles to protect the pram and sailboat from bumping. List has been a bit quiet, I hope everyone is out sailing and enjoying themselves. Bones ____________________________________________________________ 5 Best Diet Pills of 2012 Find out which diet pills tested highest for weight loss. Free report. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4fe1487ebc79d7c9be6st05vuc