'twas the night before Christmas when I read with great glee Tod's wonderful winter tale of the vane building three When all of the sudden a memory I had of the ultimate self steering created by Dad Through years of great patience with testing and care he created a steering that worked pretty fair Season after season he perfected his creation he even took naps as it did the navigation Through low and high tide on all points of sail through reefs rocks and shoals it never did fail You may now be wondering what system could this be 'twas the great love of sailing my dad shared with me Now I can hardly wait until March Eleven when my wife and I receive our first bundle from Heaven Through years of great patience through good times and bad I'll create a self steering like the one made by dad Merry Christmas! Bob Campbell Montgomery 17 #615 "Alina" Lodi, CA ----- Original Message ----- From: <htmills@bright.net> To: ">Mboats<" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 3:33 PM Subject: M_Boats: On Donner, On Blitzen 'twas the night before Christmas and all through the list not a poster was posting not that anyone missed For Howard was out in his shop sawing wood and it's assumed Doug Kelch was doing the same But Tod was still drawing; hadn't lifted a plane. All three were devising and scheming a vane. At least two were consulting with Mr. Murray himself that maker of windvanes with designs on the shelf. One was planning on keeping it simple vane only he sought, no oar making ripple The second was aiming for middling ground a tab on the rudder was perfectly sound But the last one's candle was burning dim giving Rube Goldberg a fight oh so grim with gears and levers and bearings and such It all was becoming a little too much. Tod _______________________________________________ montgomery_boats mailing list montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats