I ran across this old photo recently and thought I'd share it with you. I told you I'm an old-timer about sailing. This is my friend Paul and I sailing a raft we made at Little Cultis Lake in the Cascade Mountains in E. OR, near Bend, OR. I'm the good-looking one doing the sail trim; Paul is at the helm. The photo is from the summer of 1950 so I would have been nine or ten years old. Paul, being a year younger, was obviously just a little kid. We never gave a thought that the raft might not do well upwind so we sailed across the lake and it was a long walk back. Yes, we got in trouble. Paul and I still sail, hunt, and fish together, still lots of time sitting around a campfire telling lies. We did the regatta at Whiskey Town Lake just before covid; we didn't win that one but had a great time, which couldn't be helped.
Wow! You go back to the old square-rigger days! Was that meant to be a planing hull? ;-) Thanks for sharing a blast from the past. cheers, John On 4/22/22 14:18, jerry montgomery wrote:
I ran across this old photo recently and thought I'd share it with you. I told you I'm an old-timer about sailing. This is my friend Paul and I sailing a raft we made at Little Cultis Lake in the Cascade Mountains in E. OR, near Bend, OR. I'm the good-looking one doing the sail trim; Paul is at the helm. The photo is from the summer of 1950 so I would have been nine or ten years old. Paul, being a year younger, was obviously just a little kid. We never gave a thought that the raft might not do well upwind so we sailed across the lake and it was a long walk back. Yes, we got in trouble.
Paul and I still sail, hunt, and fish together, still lots of time sitting around a campfire telling lies. We did the regatta at Whiskey Town Lake just before covid; we didn't win that one but had a great time, which couldn't be helped.
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One boat, one voyage- makes this the rarest of all Monty’s, resale value never determined. And now I’m daydreaming of adventures in the beat up old boats of my childhood when I should be finishing out the work day… On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 2:18 PM jerry montgomery <jmbn1@outlook.com> wrote:
I ran across this old photo recently and thought I'd share it with you. I told you I'm an old-timer about sailing. This is my friend Paul and I sailing a raft we made at Little Cultis Lake in the Cascade Mountains in E. OR, near Bend, OR. I'm the good-looking one doing the sail trim; Paul is at the helm. The photo is from the summer of 1950 so I would have been nine or ten years old. Paul, being a year younger, was obviously just a little kid. We never gave a thought that the raft might not do well upwind so we sailed across the lake and it was a long walk back. Yes, we got in trouble.
Paul and I still sail, hunt, and fish together, still lots of time sitting around a campfire telling lies. We did the regatta at Whiskey Town Lake just before covid; we didn't win that one but had a great time, which couldn't be helped.
Jerry You look pretty buff for a 10 yr old😎🤐 George Merry Helen II 96 M15 #602 "We Can Not Control the Wind But We Can Adjust Our Sails" On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 4:18 PM jerry montgomery <jmbn1@outlook.com> wrote:
I ran across this old photo recently and thought I'd share it with you. I told you I'm an old-timer about sailing. This is my friend Paul and I sailing a raft we made at Little Cultis Lake in the Cascade Mountains in E. OR, near Bend, OR. I'm the good-looking one doing the sail trim; Paul is at the helm. The photo is from the summer of 1950 so I would have been nine or ten years old. Paul, being a year younger, was obviously just a little kid. We never gave a thought that the raft might not do well upwind so we sailed across the lake and it was a long walk back. Yes, we got in trouble.
Paul and I still sail, hunt, and fish together, still lots of time sitting around a campfire telling lies. We did the regatta at Whiskey Town Lake just before covid; we didn't win that one but had a great time, which couldn't be helped.
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