Gary,
That's a good thought, however, last year when I was blown over, (as Dave Scobie pointed out) I took water into the cockpit and lockers from over the gunwal and the shear force of the water rushing in, found it's way into my dry locker.? I have latches on my lockers which never opened.??The next day I opened my locker and found about 8 inches of water.??It was a good thing it was my?starboard locker, since my port locker has been cut out, and I did not have a bilge pump installed at the time.? As far as the stability of the Montgomery............if you?have buried the starboard gunwal below the water line and the cockpit is filling up with water and you don't end up swimming with the fishes...........then I don't believe?"turning turtle" will be a problem.? IMHO, however, I have turned turtle on two other boats?that I owned.? I guess I'm must be a terrible sailor to admit that one!!!? Anyone willing to?crew with me???? I guess not.? Fairwinds to all, Skip Campion M-15 #210, Wild Guppy -----Original Message----- From: Gary M Hyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 4:16 pm Subject: Re: M_Boats: Wet lockers...question from Kendall Kendall: I cut out one of the cockpit lockers in my M15. Be sure to provide it with a positive lid latch, so that if you heel too far over you don't fill the cabin with water thru the locker lid that would likely fly open if not latched. --Gary Hyde 2005 M17 sailboat #637 'Hydeaway 2' We can't change the wind, but we can trim our sails. On Feb 26, 2008, at 9:41 AM, W David Scobie wrote: > Kendall: > > i believe this is a owner option. don't know if this was done by > jerry in '84 or by a prior owner. > > yes LOTS of space, thought i always worry about putting to much all > in the stern. > > i'll be sharing photos shortly (need to visit the boat in winter > storage today). > > > dave scobie > M15#288, not yet named > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dave, I was sitting in the cabin just daydreaming about how to > utilize the space better and one of the ideas that I thought of was > to take the cockpit lockers out and that would open up a great deal > of space as well as give me access all the way aft. Is that what > happened to the later models? The design changed? > > Can you send some pictures please. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Kendall in NW Louisiana M-15 #164 > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
