Hi Charles Congralutions on becoming a M owner, you will find it's a great boat & you will have many happy hours with it. I would reccomend that you keep the bow pulpit. When you on the water & have to go foward to do anything , that foward deck gets mighty small. The bow pulpit is comforting. I'd like to add a stern rail to mine.
Wayne M17 #204 Intrepid --- Original Message ----- From: "Charless Fowlkes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:42 PM Subject: M_Boats: new M15 owner > I was lucky to purchase a 1985 M15 with Ivory hull with Green trim last > week when I was in California. It is in great shape but I am making > "improvements" such as removing the bow pulpit which I did not feel I > needed. As soon as the weather warms I will fill the holes; it snowed a > little today in Bozeman. > > In the rudder I noticed a loose pin on the rod connecting the tiller to the > rudder blade. To get to the pin I had to dis-assemble the rudder. This > took some pounding due to corrosion between the stainless bolts and the > aluminum spacers. I plan to refinish the aluminum cheeks as soon as I can > find some Zinc Chromate primer in my little town. Think I will put some > anti-seizing compound on the bolts when I put it back together, that is if > I can remember where all the parts go! > > I am thinking about cutting out the well in the starboard locker to get > access to that space. There were about five loose blocks of Styrofoam in > this space, each about the size of a shoe box. Is this extra floatation > needed? > > After some minor rigging changes and painting the trailer and finding some > new tires I should be ready to head for the water. We DO have some lakes > in Montana but they are frozen part of the year. I have trailed other > boats to Puget Sound, Baja, and the Florida Keys. Am not sure what we will > do with the M15 but it sure is cute! > > Thanks to the encouragement of several members of this group. > > Charless Fowlkes > Bozeman, MT > > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats > _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
