An easy reach to the Lake Erie Islands in the 17.	Early morning coasting on Lake Erie leaving South Bass Island. Ahead is Ballast Island.	Storm Petrel sailing out to greet the morning sunlight.	Montgomery 17 BuscaBrisas on a broad reach near Kelley's Island in western Lake Erie.
Montgomery 15 Storm Petrel on a broad reach near Kelley's Island, Lake Erie.	Storm Petrel cruising home in light air.	At anchor along the Bay Point sandbar at the mouth of Sandusky Bay.	Storm Petrel (left) and BuscaBrisas (right) on their trailers after a busy weekend's sail.

The starboard quarterberth on M-17 BuscaBrisas. I slide two such containers down the quarterberth for extra storage space.

Some of BuscaBrisas' customized galley: paper towel roll and a cubbyhole back under the cockpit coaming. If you look carefully, you can see the cubbyhole beyond the two inch high fiddle. This makes a nice secure place to keep valuables. These modifications were made by BuscaBrisas' former owner Rod Johnson.

More of Rod's customized galley. Note the lift-and-pull drawer and the fold-down door with finger-hole latch. Also, inside the galley space Rod added bulkhead dividers to ensure that contents stayed put. He added a similar divider at the forward end of the storage space under the starboard quarterberth. After a season on the water I find these ideas to be very helpful in making the storage space more useable. Rod once spent 7 weeks aboard cruising from Port Angeles, WA to Bella Coola, BC and back. He wrote a two-part story of his trip for the Winter, '98 and Spring, '99 editions of the Montgomery Owner's Newsletter.

Kelley's Island

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