There's quite a story behind Freebird, there was a nice write up in the Montgomery newsletter many years ago. I think the guys name was Mark Hightower and he worked for Jerry. The 17 was being built for a fella from Mexico to do some serious sailing. The plans fell thru and Mark got the boat and got it ready to go. Jerry will know the story. If I can find the old newsletter i will scan it and send it along Gary Valetti M17 Bellerin **************Plan your next getaway with AOL Travel. Check out Today's Hot 5 Travel Deals! (http://travel.aol.com/discount-travel?ncid=emlcntustrav00000001)
The old MON's are all on the MSOG site, although some URL's seem to need to be manually edited to get to all of the pages: http://msog.org/mon/mon_main.cfm It was in the Winter, '96 newsletter. The article was about two boats.... http://msog.org/mon/mon2-4/mon2-4-1.htm http://msog.org/mon/mon2-4/mon2-4-3.htm http://msog.org/mon/mon2-4/mon2-4-4.htm http://msog.org/mon/mon2-4/mon2-4-5.htm http://msog.org/mon/mon2-4/mon2-4-6.htm Tod Mills M17 #408, 1987 galley model BuscaBrisas
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There's quite a story behind Freebird, there was a nice write up in the Montgomery newsletter many years ago. I think the guys name was Mark Hightower and he worked for Jerry. The 17 was being built for a fella from Mexico to do some serious sailing. The plans fell thru and Mark got the boat and got it ready to go. Jerry will know the story. If I can find the old newsletter i will scan it and send it along
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I asked about the keel and it is Iron and is the same as the regular deck 15 On 10/29/08, htmills@zoominternet.net <htmills@zoominternet.net> wrote:
The old MON's are all on the MSOG site, although some URL's seem to need to be manually edited to get to all of the pages:
http://msog.org/mon/mon_main.cfm
It was in the Winter, '96 newsletter.
The article was about two boats....
http://msog.org/mon/mon2-4/mon2-4-1.htm http://msog.org/mon/mon2-4/mon2-4-3.htm http://msog.org/mon/mon2-4/mon2-4-4.htm http://msog.org/mon/mon2-4/mon2-4-5.htm http://msog.org/mon/mon2-4/mon2-4-6.htm
Tod Mills M17 #408, 1987 galley model BuscaBrisas
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There's quite a story behind Freebird, there was a nice write up in the Montgomery newsletter many years ago. I think the guys name was Mark Hightower and he worked for Jerry. The 17 was being built for a fella from Mexico to do some serious sailing. The plans fell thru and Mark got the boat and got it ready to go. Jerry will know the story. If I can find the old newsletter i will scan it and send it along
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Mboaters - in 'looking' at the M17 on ebay i noticed something in the pictures - pop rivits (or what look like pop rivits) or screws along the hull/deck joint. for one example see - http://photos.ebizautos.com/7410/3497775_24.jpg (for the entire listing see search for listing 320314220500 on ebay.com) when you see other M17s of 'newer' vintage you don't see these - http://www.msogphotosite.com/MSOG/b17hyde/b17hyde12.jpg or older a slight bit older - http://www.msogphotosite.com/MSOG/b17smith/b17smith10.jpg thoughts? dave scobie M15 #288 - SCRED visit Scred's www-site: http://www.freewebs.com/m15-named-scred
Dave, Those are snaps for some kind of canvas cover. I have them on my Thistle. Tod Mills M17 #408, 1987 galley model BuscaBrisas
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Mboaters -
in 'looking' at the M17 on ebay i noticed something in the pictures - pop rivits (or what look like pop rivits) or screws along the hull/deck joint. for one example see -
http://photos.ebizautos.com/7410/3497775_24.jpg
(for the entire listing see search for listing 320314220500 on ebay.com)
when you see other M17s of 'newer' vintage you don't see these -
http://www.msogphotosite.com/MSOG/b17hyde/b17hyde12.jpg
or older a slight bit older -
http://www.msogphotosite.com/MSOG/b17smith/b17smith10.jpg
thoughts?
dave scobie M15 #288 - SCRED visit Scred's www-site: http://www.freewebs.com/m15-named-scred
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