I also recently put in a new motor mount on my M15 -- tightened the nuts cutting out the small box in the cockpit hatch and reached in -- it was a stretch! I must have looked pretty funny to the neighbors with my head and shoulders straining into that hole while my feet were up in the air and all over the place. Being down there gave me a new perspective -- I too had the idea to add a little more ballast. My idea was to fill the unused hollow aft portion of the keel with concrete. Looks like it might be a third of a cubic foot -- maybe 50 pounds. Maybe I'd try embedding some lead scrap which would add some more weight. Does anyone have any thoughts about pouring concrete into fiberglass areas like that? Any problems anyone could see? -- Steve McClellan~~M15~#152~~Chicago
Has anyone thought about dumping something heavy, like chain or, ideally, lead, into the bilge, to make the M15 stand up a little more in a blow? You could probably get 50 or 60 lbs. down below the cabin floor. I haven't tried it, but keep thinking it might be useful.