1983 Montgomery 17 Hull # 369

 

The boat is in excellent condition and much has been added or improved. 

Montgomery 17’s are highly regarded and not always easy to find, specially in Canada. I had to go to Portland for this boat in 2006.

The boat goes on and off the trailer easily. I can usually launch and retrieve this boat faster than clumsy motor boaters.

Trailer has surge brakes and is perfectly suspended for this boat. Tracks great behind a mini van or a small truck easily. One of the tires was new last year. The bearings have been repacked recently. Has bearing buddies. The bunks were recovered recently.
 

Full custom made (blue) sunbrella canvas cover for boat.

Yamaha 4hp 4 stroke engine. Works perfect. The cover or lid for the motor is unfortunately a bit beaten. It got blow off while towing last summer. It is fine but not perfect.

Stainless adjustable motor mount works great.
Tiller pilot. (Auto tiller)

Hank on head sails.

North battened Main and 155, original stock jib. Spinner, other older sails as well.

Slab reefing, two reef points.
Loose footed main …with out-haul.  
Back-stay tensioner. Harken gear. (I am a sail tweaker....lots of adjustment) 
Main sheet with all good Harken gear.
The main traveller always has worked fine, but has cheezy little pulleys on it. I just never got around to replacing them. 

12V with high quality solar panel. I have cruised for up to 10 days and never had a shortage of 12V power.
New Main Power Switch.

All lines lead to cockpit.

Down haul head-sail.

Adjustable high end Whiskey Pole I also use as a Spinner pole (Forespar?) 

Topping lift for the main.

Boom lift Spinner pole.

I have a bungee system for temporarily securing the head-sail to the foredeck. Very handy and easy. I sail solo a lot and the boat is rigged accordingly.

Custom Hatch boards /solid figured Makore. 

Honduras railings.

Custom Honduras drawers/storage below.

Custom one piece rudder and tiller. This rudder is very accurate and fair. It made quite a large difference over the original rudder. The tiller is a beauty.

Center board cleaned and epoxied with new pendant and shackle added. There has never been an issue with this center board.

Never had bottom paint. Virgin bottom. I have only ever cleaned and waxed the bottom.

Anchors. Each with rode. 150 feet with chain and markers. Danforth style in a heavy canvas bag.

Flares

Original interior Cushions.

Storage containers below.

Good Compass

Icon VHF

Depth sounder / temperature.

Anemometer. (wind speed / hand held)

Folding Stainless boarding/swim ladder on transom. This ladder works very well and is out of the way when not in use.

Fenders

Snubber.

Electric bilge pump.

This boat is ready to sail.

What it needs:

My wife backed the trailer (no boat on it) into another trailer at the launch ramp. She killed the right hand side fender. Needs a new one. We can talk about that. Whoever buys this boat will undoubtedly trailering it some distance.
All the exterior woodwork is in need of attention. Some of it needs to be taken back to wood and done fresh. Some of it just needs a fresh coat of finish.

My goal is to get a fair price for it, the downside is I am not at all certain what a fair price is these days. Although I have been getting the groups emails, I only read occasional topics. I am kind of out of the loop.

If you want to know more or make an offer it would be best to email me direct; tim@timtone.com

Owning this boat was an achieved dream. It sails wonderfully, is admired by all, and looks perfect just sitting in my yard. But a boat this nice needs to be used more than I have been using it. 

Cheers, Tim in Kelowna.