Hi, Danelle: Congrats on your new boat! If yours is hull #378, I guess mine -- #MMP173771183 -- was built just before yours in November 1983. Have fun!
Gordon Milwaukee On Mar 28, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Danelle Landis wrote: > 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 > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______________ > Special deal for Yahoo! users & friends - No Cost. Get a month of > Blockbuster Total Access now > http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text3.com > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
