Hello Listers and Jerry, Question: Has anyone ever considered the idea of adapting an early model M17 transom area to incorporate a wet locker like the later models? I own a 1976 M17 and I feel the improved scupper design and the ability to store wet items in it's own locker would be a huge plus. Jerry, if you're monitoring this, would this involve cutting and forming a lazarette cover, boxing in the transom area to be watertight, plugging the original small scupper drain, and finally, cutting in the new cockpit drain scuppers and transom drains? What did I leave out? Seems like it would be a lot less work than Sean's keel rebuild! The North Channel cruise is one month away! Later, Bones
All, I have a new to me 1975 M-17 and am still trying to figure out some of the rigging and setup. The tack of the sail is confusing me. The tack has the usual clew but no fitting on the boom to secure it as my M-15 did. The gooseneck fitting has a metal loop on the bottom side of the boom but this appears to be for the down haul. I have scoured the MSOG site for a good picture of the setup but cannot find any. I would appreciate any recommendations. I am also interested in leading lines back to the cockpit and was looking at the plate with handy attachment points on it that appear on Halycon http://www.msogphotosite.com/MSOG/b17halcy/b17halcy10.jpg as a place to attach blocks for the Halyards to lead aft. I would appreciate any suggestions on leading lines to the cockpit as far as technique and hardware. And not to pile on but my M-17 has a steel centerboard. It was sandblasted (with acorn shells to be green) and coated at the yard before I picked the boat up. However there are rust stains on the trailer center board skid after winter storage. Any opinions of whether this is a cause for concern? Should I just accept that it is going to have some rust regardless? Thanks in advance, Robbin M-17 #601(if I am reading it right!), out of Breezy Point MD
Yeah, there ought to be some kind of attachment point for the tack of the sail. Usually some sort of U shaped fitting with a quick pin through it. If you go to the Dwyer website you can see examples. And the clew should be attached to an outhaul of some sort--usually a block fixed at the end of the boom that directs the outhaul line to a jam cleat a foot to two forward on the side of the boom. The loop you mention is, as you say, for a downhaul. Dwyer also carries organizer plates that mount under the tabernacle. Nice thing to have. You'll need some cheek blocks or some such device to turn the halyards back toward the cockpit. I don't think you're reading the number right. 601 would be a more recent vintage than your 75. t -- Tom & Jane M17 dharma bum
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