David, I am in the process of restoring (albeit very slowly) M17 #14, a 1974 bulb keel model. My brother owned the boat for several years and regularly "blew the socks off" the keel/cb Montys on the lake. Unfortunately, Griselda sat on the hard for almost 20 years after my brother gave up sailing. Upon retiring and moving back from Germany, I bought her and I am slowly restoring her in between building a house for my kid and remodeling our lakefront retirement home. I have replaced the keel bolts and rebedded the keel and overhauled the mast and rigging. I still need to barrier coat and paint the hull. I hope to have her in the water when the weather cools off a bit in the fall. One nice thing that came with the boat is a set of virtually unused sails consisting of a full batten main (double reef points), 110%, 80% and storm jibs, a 150 Genoa and a spinnaker with gear. I am looking forward to getting out of "project mode" and starting to go to some of the Monty gathers. I would love to take Griselda someplace where I could sail her against other M17s to see if she really is faster and stiffer than the keel/cb boats. Griselda would be very happy to help put to bed the myths about the bulb keel monty's performance. Whitebeard M17 #14, Griselda Lake Livingston, Texas

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:18:44 -0700 From: wdscobie@yahoo.com To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: 'M16' sea trials

now a san juan adventure with jerry doing tests of an 'm16'! what a trip!!!

when i was heading back towards anacortes (only a week off 'approved' by my boss) made a stop at friday harbor. one, of the many, folks stopping by the boat and saying, "is that a montgomery?1"; stated he owned from '97 to '00 a M17 bulb keel in hawaii. it was his belief the boat was sailed to hawaii before his ownership.

he had many, exictedly told, stories to tell about sailing the boat toe-rail in the water and out-sailing many a larger boat.

love your boats jerry. would be a great to meet you in person and sail.

dave scobie M17 #375 - SWEET PEA visit SWEET PEA's www-site: http://www.m17-375.webs.com

--- On Mon, 6/22/09, jerry <jerry@jerrymontgomery.org> wrote:

You mean nobody got et by sharks? Amazing!

I'm envious. With any luck, I'll have a new M-16 next year and join you. Don't want to wear out my sails for the Potter race, tho.

jerry

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