My name is Vernon. I had a 420 decades ago still have it but not in service. After watching sailing in the Olympics on TV, I thought I would get back into it. I start in where I left off years ago. Yes with the WWP. From there I check out Hunter, Compac, Macgregor, Precision, Rhodes, and others that I cannot recall now. I thought that the Rhodes site really had a lot of great information on boats. It seem to be analogous as to how they build the Montgomery line. I like and agree with the physics of compromise in the Montgomery line not full keel but has a lot of positive features that other boats lack. I hope I can be in the group because at this time I really do not have a boat. I am looking I think for a Montgomery 17. I have had tons of hours on line investigating everything there is on boats. Heck that is half the fun. I even called a guy with a used Macgregor 26C. I just could not bring myself to take a look at it. What can I say the style of the boat does matter. I think that the Montgomery does it right; NorSea too by the way. I like the cutter class of boats but my preference has always been for schooners but they are definitely outside my price range. I was wondering if Bob or Jerry at Montgomery could make a cutter of the 17 interesting but I think that maybe they should be making those kinds of decision. After all they are the experts. Well, I just thought I would say hello and I have enjoyed reading the articles. I am not sure just when I am going to jump in here. I might just weather the winter and start this spring it all depends. --- Vernon and Linda Mosso --- vmosso@earthlink.net --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.
"I even called a guy with a used Macgregor 26C. I just could not bring myself to take a look at it. What can I say the style of the boat does matter." --Yep! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vernon Mosso" <vmosso@earthlink.net> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 11:31 PM Subject: New Member My name is Vernon. I had a 420 decades ago still have it but not in service. After watching sailing in the Olympics on TV, I thought I would get back into it. I start in where I left off years ago. Yes with the WWP. From there I check out Hunter, Compac, Macgregor, Precision, Rhodes, and others that I cannot recall now. I thought that the Rhodes site really had a lot of great information on boats. It seem to be analogous as to how they build the Montgomery line. I like and agree with the physics of compromise in the Montgomery line not full keel but has a lot of positive features that other boats lack. I hope I can be in the group because at this time I really do not have a boat. I am looking I think for a Montgomery 17. I have had tons of hours on line investigating everything there is on boats. Heck that is half the fun. I even called a guy with a used Macgregor 26C. I just could not bring myself to take a look at it. What can I say the style of the boat does matter. I think that the Montgomery does it right; NorSea too by the way. I like the cutter class of boats but my preference has always been for schooners but they are definitely outside my price range. I was wondering if Bob or Jerry at Montgomery could make a cutter of the 17 interesting but I think that maybe they should be making those kinds of decision. After all they are the experts. Well, I just thought I would say hello and I have enjoyed reading the articles. I am not sure just when I am going to jump in here. I might just weather the winter and start this spring it all depends. --- Vernon and Linda Mosso --- vmosso@earthlink.net
welcome Vernon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vernon Mosso" <vmosso@earthlink.net> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 10:31 PM Subject: M_Boats: New Member
My name is Vernon. I had a 420 decades ago still have it but not in service. After watching sailing in the Olympics on TV, I thought I would get back into it. I start in where I left off years ago. Yes with the WWP. From there I check out Hunter, Compac, Macgregor, Precision, Rhodes, and others that I cannot recall now. I thought that the Rhodes site really had a lot of great information on boats. It seem to be analogous as to how they build the Montgomery line. I like and agree with the physics of compromise in the Montgomery line not full keel but has a lot of positive features that other boats lack. I hope I can be in the group because at this time I really do not have a boat. I am looking I think for a Montgomery 17. I have had tons of hours on line investigating everything there is on boats. Heck that is half the fun. I even called a guy with a used Macgregor 26C. I just could not bring myself to take a look at it. What can I say the style of the boat does matter. I think that the Montgomery does it right; NorSea too by the way. I like the cutter class of boats but my preference has always been for schooners but they are definitely outside my price range. I was wondering if Bob or Jerry at Montgomery could make a cutter of the 17 interesting but I think that maybe they should be making those kinds of decision. After all they are the experts. Well, I just thought I would say hello and I have enjoyed reading the articles. I am not sure just when I am going to jump in here. I might just weather the winter and start this spring it all depends.
--- Vernon and Linda Mosso
--- vmosso@earthlink.net
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participants (3)
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Craig F. Honshell -
Gilbert Landin -
Vernon Mosso