Hi all,
Such a warm welcome, thanks!
I did take of photo of the boat today, but my three-year old is posing by it,
so it's not really the most technically informational photo... We're having it
hauled out and put on blocks Monday morning, so I'll get a lot of really good
shots and upload them.
This morning I looked for the boat's numbers. Unfortunately the blue hull was
painted over thickly at some point with blue paint, so only part of the numbers
were visible after staring hard with the right angle of bright sunlight. (Yes,
bright sunlight in Ketchikan!) It looked like: M------3781083 The zero is a
close guess, but it looks like I at least know it was built in 1983, maybe hull
#378?
I'll feel relieved to get a look at the bottom, as the CB fixes were the way I
found the Montgomery owners website - from googling the boat, then I studied
the photos to see what we might be taking on, when the owner mentioned that the
CB had been stuck partway down for a long time. Someone cut the line to it
too, and the opening that goes into the CB pocket from the winch has epoxy or
something blobbed over it. The top gudgeon fitting for the rudder has two of
the three bolts missing too, and the bracket is just swinging off of one bolt.
(the rudder's in my house) Looking at that today, I see why the previous owner
hadn't fixed it. I guess one would almost have to cut out the fiberglass, with
so little access. I read about someone's swim ladder installation that
addressed this...
David P - did you live up here in rain country too, or only your daughter?
Bill - thanks for the encouragement to document the projects. I know I have
been very grateful for what people have shared, and I haven't even started yet!
John B - I just knew I'd run into one or two people who were connected with
this area! Boy, can I relate to your getting-towed story! My family has so
many stories of being towed, especially in the rivers with their shifting
bottoms, when we went aground a few times, and when we had outboards die at the
worst times (entering huge locks next to giant barges and tugs, with
house-sized whirlpools sucking at our boat, for instance) Sailing is such a
story-generating hobby! Nothing like getting laughed at by compatriots to make
it all more fun! What was your Matthews cruiser's name? It'd be fun to run
across it maybe sometime...do you think it would be here in Ktn, if it isn't
scrapped by now?
David S - thanks for the link about Scred! Great backstory for a name. I'm an
SNL fan too, but haven't seen Scred. I'm thinking hard about names. I like
the idea of using one of the sea nymph sisters of Halimede, because that was
our big, ugly unpainted aluminum boat's name when we first bought her. My
parents changed the name (isn't that bad luck???) to Pacific Rays, after a
nightmare summer of cutting out and replacing 60 percent of the plates that had
horrible electrolysis holes, then painting it. I and my little sister worked
ten or twelve hour days most of that summer with delightful jobs like grinding
welds and sanding bottom paint. Every teenage girl's dream summer, right? ha
ha.
Thanks for the welcome and encouragement!
Danelle Landis
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