probably in thelate 80's I retooled the interior of the 6-8, putting a footwell in the aft seat/air tank with te4ak seat plan ks over it, and making the fwd seat fore/aft, with two set of oar sockets, so that if you were by yourself you could use the aft position and put your feet in the foot sell, but if you had a passenger you would sit fwd. Worked fairly well. I used to take a 6-8 down the American river and take my dog Mac. I'd go down the rapids sterm first and since Mac sat on the back seat and was on the 'leading edge", when we hit the big haystacks he'd take a big jump into my lap! Lots of fun. jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Flickasf" <flickasf@aol.com> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 2:30 PM Subject: M_Boats: keeping a hard dinghy /montgomery 6'8" I have a Mongomery 6'8" and it rows fairly well. If you are rowing by yourself, put a little weight in the stern. Another solution at anchor is: 1. set up your spinnaker pole on your stay, just above the deck 2. suspended it from a topping lift or haylard 3. tie a line to the part extended over the water (one runs forward, the other aft) 4. attach a block to the part that extends over the water and run a long line from it to the bow of your dinghy and then back to the boat 5. attach a line aft on the dinghy 6. by adjusting the two lines you can keep the dinghy out from the boat and pull it in when you want. 7. the 6'8" works great with this set up. (I have done this many times while anchored on my Flicka. Bert Felton -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. SPAMfighter has removed 6700 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len Do you have a slow PC? Try Free scan http://www.spamfighter.com/SLOW-PCfighter?cid=sigen