Giles, The Speedtech looks pretty good and that link from "ddaystrom" with a price of $112.25 even looks better. Thanks to you both. Giles, you say it is portable, but it looks like one could install it permanently. How do you mount yours when in use? Thanks, Rick Langer M15 #337 Hudson River

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:18:41 -0500 From: "Morris, Giles" <giles.morris@unisys.com> Subject: RE: M_Boats: A little advice & info please? To: "Wayne Yeargain" <saltydog@ev1.net>, "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <49CB9B7023A06349B0A08B2158EBB19408FFE470@usmcl-exch1.na.uis.unisys.com>

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The only knot meters I'm familiar with require a through hull fitting to accommodate the paddle wheel

I use a portable knot meter sold by Speedtech. Mine appears to be obsolete, but the current model is shown at http://www.speedtech.com/asp/product.asp?recorprod=1&product=206&cat=35& ph=&keywords=&recor=&SearchFor=&PT_ID=

Seems to work well, and I was sufficiently happy with it to buy a second one when the first wore out after a few seasons of abuse.

Giles Morris