Doug, I lived in Honolulu from 1956 to 1967, lived on a house boat at Ala Wai Yacht Harbor for most of that period, have may memories of McWayne Marine, (in those days we referred to it as the "jewelry store", ref: high prices). Did you keep your boat at Ala Wai? Wayne M17 #204 ----- Original Message ----- From: <RINALDO698@aol.com> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 3:50 PM Subject: M_Boats: Fixed keel
Hello to list! I've just been observing since I subscribed to this list. I subscribed because I owned an M-17 years ago. I bought her at McWayne Marine in Honolulu in 1976 and lived on her for almost 2 years there. I named her Woodstock, after the bird in the Snoopy cartoons. I had learned to sail hanging out with a friend who owned a documented motorsailer named Snoopy, and since I was always tagging along with him, it was the perfect name for her. I had so many wonderful times on her I wouldn't even know where to start talking story about her! I now own a Com-Pac16 in East TN. My questions are, when did Jerry Montgomery start building these wonderful boats and how many were fitted with a fixed keel? Woodstock had a fixed keel on her and was an awsome little boat. Thanks, Doug Rinaldo _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats