Hello Todd, Just wanted to say thanks for providing the links to the article on "Freebird" There's lots of good information there. Anna, if she decides to purchase this boat will be getting a tough little, go anywhere M17. Fair Winds Mark E M17 F/D #103 AMY ----- Original Message ---- From: "htmills@zoominternet.net" <htmills@zoominternet.net> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:49:14 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: FreeBird 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

-----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of TOMMYVAL@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:24 PM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: FreeBird

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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