Ed, What a nice string of boats to have owned. I would like to try them all :-) I live in Northern VA, near Reston but plan on launching accross the Patuxent river from Benedict, MD on September 5. Not sure of the time yet but will probably still be there at noon if you want to meet us there. Let me know. Doug Kelch --- On Mon, 8/31/09, edward haile <ewhaile@hotmail.com> wrote: From: edward haile <ewhaile@hotmail.com> Subject: M_Boats: new member To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 12:40 PM Hello All, I found Montgomery boats quite by chance surfing on the last day of the year 2007. I was very intrigued and thought I would buy a secondhand M17, but could find nothing for sale in the South. I live in Virginia. I believe I like the Ms for the right reasons: wellmade, seakindly, easy to sail, minimal, shoal draft. Meanwhile I bought a very nice Tiki 21 catamaran. That last feature has been true of all my boats. It's because I live on the water, on the Rappahannock River, but my mooring at low tide is under two feet. My boats have been, in order: Town 16, Rhodes Bantam, Mobjack, Sunbird 18 trimaran, Tremolino 23 trimaran, Bolger Martha Jane, and the Tiki. I sold my it this past 8/24. Why? Cabin too small. You touch three out of four sides. The one drawback of all small multihulls. I am very eager to look at an M15. I know a couple of M people nearby own M17s. Does anybody know who owns an M15 around the Chesapeake? Ed Haile, N38 01 42 W76 56 22 _________________________________________________________________ With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. http://www.windowslive.com/Desktop/PhotoGallery _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats Remember, there is no privacy on the Internet!