Thanks for the compliment! One thing I forgot to mention on the site about that 48' aluminum sailboat is that it had the weirdest feature I've ever heard of when we first bought it:  the diesel cook/heat stove vented out of the mast!  We'd have people come up to us, alarmed, telling us "Smoke is coming from the top of your mast!"  It was even more dramatic when my dad converted the stove to burn wood... After several years though, one bad day, the heat partly melted the base of the mast, and then my dad was inspired to replace the mast, put in a normal stovepipe, and then converted the whole sail system to a typical Marconi mainsail, losing the gaff rigged main, kept the two foresails, but took out the rollerfurling. Danelle "Ceto" M17 #378 Ketchikan, AK ----- Original Message ---- From: Quiel <quiel@charter.net> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 7:30:24 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: M17 Website update Danelle, Awesome website! Looks like you had a wonderfull life. Thanks for sharing it with us. Don Quiel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Danelle Landis" <anniesark9@yahoo.com> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 5:24 PM Subject: M_Boats: M17 Website update

Hello group,

I've been playing too much and am now very behind on the conversation here!  Am having fun catching up.

Thought I'd send another invitation to visit our M17's website, as I added some more photos, some of family having fun on the M17, several older ones too from my younger years living on sailboats.  Here's the link, if you have a few extra minutes and some curiosity:

http://web.mac.com/anniesark9

Danelle Landis "Ceto" M17 #378 Ketchikan, AK

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