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JERRY MONTGOMERY A specialist in trailerable sailboats since 1969
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| From 1969 until 1995 I owned and
operated Montgomery Marine Products, primarily a manufacturer of sailboats
featuring the excellent MONTGOMERY line, consisting of the MONTGOMERY 23,
MONTGOMERY 17, MONTGOMERY 15, as well as the MONTGOMERY
dinghies.
During this time we made about 20 of the 23's, about 500 each of the 17's and 15's, and several thousand of the dinghies. We also made the MONTGOMERY 12, which is a great little sloop designed by Lyle Hess for yacht club racing, and the MONTGOMERY 10, which won most of the honors at Yacht Racing magazine's America's Teacup Trials in 1970 (Which was where the Laser and the Hobie 14 were introduced), and the M-10 won the only perfect score in quality of the 49 entries. There is an owner's group, with archives and an e-mail forum that might be of interest to you, dealing with the larger of these boats . We also dabbled in canoes, both conventional ("real canoes") and polynesian-type outrigger canoes, and all were of my design except for the 6-person outriggers that I made from a Tahitian design for the World Sprint Championships in 1992. It's also a point of considerable pride to me that I stroked the team that took a 1st in the 500 meters and a 3rd in the 1,000 meters. Those were the days. In 1995 I ended a 26-year marriage and decided that building boats, with the problems of a bunch of employees, was just not fun anymore, and sold the tooling to various companies. Since then I mostly make my living designing and tooling racing kayaks and outrigger canoes for an upcoming Sacramento company (Huki Outrigger Canoes), making the laminated wood parts for a popular three-man sailing outrigger canoe (Holopuni.com), and making rigging components for sailboats. Both of these companies are owned by good friends. Things could be worse. If you have several hours to spare take a look at these two sites (there's a whole 'nother world out there), but the purpose of this website is to promote and describe my rigging services. My shop is located in Sacramento, CA, but I am as close to you as the mailman and UPS. In order to be as efficient as possible, I prefer to communicate by e-mail, and unless I'm out "testing boats" I can usually get all work done and on the road quickly.
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