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Just kidding with the camera on a stick!
http://youtu.be/s8VIdncdZbI

Michel
You look to be enjoying your "self..ie".

Share a bit about the boat are you enjoying? What good is a selfie with you a story....
John

Sure!

The boat I have been enjoying for the last ten years is a Sandpiper 565 of 1975. There is not much to say about her apart that she is a good sailer and she points well.

As you know, I sail on the St-Lawrence, near Montreal. It is not a sailing paradise but it is home. A ten minutes walk from my house to the boat.

She was featured in # 65 of SCA !
http://youtu.be/u2cJ6Cogx4I

I plan on keeping her for as long as I sail.

Your San Piper is a bit larger than my Montgomery 15. Sail mostly lakes rivers and the nearby reservoirs. Going to the big water this week. They are holding the 2014 Pocket Yacht Palooza at Port Townsend WA. Going to try the little girl out on the big water.

Picts of me and the new spinnaker/bowsprit I designed. It's tied down to the bow until I finish the holder. Wanted to see if it worked before I have some stainless welded into the bow holder.

Sail flew nicely.

Boats don't need to be big to be great! You have a great boat. These Monty's got everything needed in a good cruiser.

Michel wrote:Boats don't need to be big to be great! You have a great boat. These Monty's got everything needed in a good cruiser.

Small boats, Big adventures.

I read that someplace!!

Thanks guys. My Monty serves my needs to sail in a place that has limits.

We all know we tell the girls size doesn't matter. But to cruise the pacific coast from oregon to mexico. Or to follow the wind to the South Pacific I will be finding the Monty a new safe home. I am not prepared to sail to Hawaii in her like the Montgomery advertisements suggest are possible.

Till that time I am enjoying the ride and thrills I receive while building my sailing and seamanship skill set.

There are many kinds of adventures. We just have to know what we want to do and be happy with it. I am not the kind to dream about big adventures but I bet that I am as happy as anybody when simply sailing my little boat.
It has a lot to do about how the thing is lived.

Wise words.

Its like Dylan Winter's has stated: The only difference in the view between a 15 ft boat and a 30 ft boat is the height above the water.

The Lusty Slogger is a 16 ft AMF Sunbird Day Sailer. It has a cuddy about 7 feet long. If I take all the junk I have in the cuddy and put it in the cockpit I have more than enough room for a mattress and sleeping bag. Then when I awake if I put all the junk back in the cuddy I can pull out my (directions compliments of SCA) single burner cook stove with the build in pots and pans storage and have my morning coffee. I have a cover that I can put over the boom to make a tent even while at anchor to offer me some privacy. Something like a Com Pac 16 or the Montgomery with sit up cabin space is ostentatious in my humble opinion!!

Although, in my weaker moments my 70 year old body says, Hey sailor, be ostentatious, its better for the stiff joints!!