Robbin, what is your hull number? I have M-15 hull # 189 (1981) ---Larry in Sacramento
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ion.com] On Behalf Of Robbin Roddewig Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 5:38 PM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: M_Boats: Trailer question and misc. Hi all, I just lifted my M-15 in the garage (mine is a mess unlike those nice photos you see on the site), and did a bunch of stuff including replacing all the rusted hardware on the trailer. Which left me with the neked trailer itself. Now I have the boat back on the trailer but with the new hardware so that I kinda lost the settings for the bunks and roller heights. The keel is now on the two forward rollers but the rear roller is not set for any particular height and I do not know how much weight the bunks should be carrying. Could anyone give me some rules of thumb for setting the trailer back up? Some of the bunch of stuff was dropping the board, doing a little filling and epoxy paint repair and replacing the line (pendant?) that pulls it up and down. The advice to pull out the core from a 3/8" line and knot it in the board slot was fabulous! This really works but I would have never figure out that was the way to do it. I also benefited from the step by step of finding the pin, hammering out the pin and getting it all back together. I also filled the keel to center board liner gap. Just after I posted a question about why I had this quarter inch gap where I felt none should be, Sean posted his repair on Dauntless showing the same thing! So cool. Not only did that show me what it was (and gave it a name) he showed step by step how to repair it AND had a seperate posting showing how to work with the epoxy. This made things too easy. Thank you Sean! This was the first I worked on the boat (or really any boat) and I just wanted to thank everyone that has contributed. It was a just a huge help! And yes I will throw some $ at the MSOG site since the epoxy was $70.00, the trailer parts $200.00 and the web sites, priceless. Robbin '81 M-15 w/o name _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
