Hi Larry, Thanks for the link to the old news letter that is pretty cool! The boat came with a large plastic bag full of Montgomery Newsletter articles and other clippings, I guess I will have to go over them more carefully. I am glad to hear that there are still a lot of people sailing in the area, but sad to hear that I missed the annual cruise in the San Juans. It would be a lot of fun to go with a knowledgeable group! With any luck I'll spend most weekends sailing this summer, it would be awesome to meet you in person on Pend Oreille or Priest lake. My wife and I camped up near Priest lake a few summers back, it is beautiful. Sam

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Larry Yake <larryyake@gmail.com> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: Bcc: Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 11:58:42 -0700 Subject: Re: M_Boats: introductions Hi Sam,

Welcome to the group and to sailing in the PNW. I coordinated the annual June San Juan Islands cruise for a span of about 10 years. During the 2013 cruise I announced my retirement as trip leader, hoping some one else would pick up the ball, but no one has stepped forward. I still sail the islands at least once a year, usually twice, with a small group of friends. There are other groups that also sail the islands annually and if you can establish an inside connection, you may be able to join one of these. I live in the inland northwest and sail many of the same lakes you listed, my favorites being Priest and Pend Oreille. Keep in touch and maybe we can get some sailing in together. There are a few other Montgomery sailors in the area as well, mostly based out of the Bitter End Marina on Pend Oreille Lake.

I also have a little knowledge of Venga Viento. I've forgotten the gentlemans name who sailed her, but I ran across him on Pend Oreille Lake back when I was first getting started. Beautiful boat. As I recall lhe had several articles in the old original Montgomery Newsletter - which has long been out of print. Somewhere, I believe on the MSOG.org website, there are scanned copies of the old newsletter. With any luck you will be able to read how-to articles that feature your "new" boat!

Good luck and hope to sail with you some day.

Larry Yake M17 CornDog

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Larry Yake <larryyake@gmail.com> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: Bcc: Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:06:46 -0700 Subject: Re: M_Boats: introductions Sam, here are some links to the old Montgomery Owners Newsletter. The first one is the index, the second one is an article about Venga Viento. The owners name was Roger Odahl.

http://msog.org/mon/mon_main.cfm

http://msog.org/mon/mon4-3/mon4-3-3.htm

Larry CornDog

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Conbert Benneck <chbenneck@gmail.com> wrote: