Keith, I have an M-15 on the other end of our great inland waterway, I am on South Puget Sound. There are several of us M-boaters on the Sound, including your area and Port Townsend. This list is a good way to contact the group. Steve M-15 # 335 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith R. Martin" <keith.richard.martin@gmail.com> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 12:29 PM Subject: M_Boats: Greetings from a new M17 owner
Hello folks,
My name is Keith Martin, I live in Burnaby, BC, Canada, ( a suburb of Vancouver). After a year long search I am thrilled to have just completed purchase and brought home to Canada my dream boat a 1982 M17, hull # 353, "Serenity".
I am an electronics engineer by profession and have been a sailing enthusiast for a good part of my life. I served the last 10 years of a 25 year tenure with Scouts Canada running a Sea Scout Troop with a fleet ranging from 8 ft sabots up to a 24 ft fixed keel sloop.
Having "done my time" with the Troop, I had been looking over the past year for an affordable, but CAPABLE boat for personal use to do some solo coastal cruising here in BC ( my wife Liz is a little like a cat, she likes to drink water, not so crazy about riding on it so I am going to be on my own a good bit of the time).
After months of research, a lot of it available thanks to this strong Monty user community I set my sights on an M17. After 8 months of looking I found "Serenity".
A little bit about "Serenity"... From what I gather she has spent a good part of her life in Arizona, sailing fresh water, with a few trips to the Sea of Cortez. The owners that I purchased her from have been sailing her on Lake Pleasant AZ just north of Phoenix. The owners previous to them were apparently located in Tuscon AZ. She is the 4 berth version and appears to be in nearly stock configuration with no modifications.
I am looking forward to getting her out in the chuck for a couple of shakedown day sails in the near future.
That's all for now, I just wanted to introduce myself and to say thank you to this group of active owners who have provided so much information online, it really made a huge impact on my due diligence and selection process...
Keith M17-353, Serenity
-- Keith R. Martin, P.Eng.