Greetings all,
I have been busy with the refresh on my new to me 1974 M17 #32. The only part that I was unable to view prior to purchase was the center board and not wanting to be unaware, I conducted the lift off the trailer as per a system similar to Larry and refurbished the centerboard, new stop bolt and added new bottom paint. Cosmetic work on the brightwork, made new teak handrails and reinforced the lower cockpit bulkhead so that the center board winch would have better support. My running and standing rigging is new by Touchstone Rigging Port Townsend and have a new Schaffer CF 500 snap furler to go with the genoa. Sail slugs on main luff and foot and also have new lazyjacks, autohelm 1000 for those moments when I want to leave the tiller or when the new iron wind Yamaha 8 - 4 stroke is pressed into service. I have a new whale gusher manual pump clone coming from a successful Ebay bid and built a mast raising gin pole to assist easy up and down. I enjoy viewing the posts by members and will share what I have learned. Anyway that’s my update for now. We’ll be sailing Babine Lake in northwest British Columbia as our initial waters for the month of June or so and then expand ….. Bruce Ward s/v caerulea _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
