I think now is not the time to bother Sean. Right now he's running the Lake Havasu Pocket Cruisers Convention that starts officially on Monday. He is very, very busy at this time. http://sailhavasu.com/ A lot of us are attending/traveling over the weekend. We've done this replacement and requires the boat up on safe jackstands, first cut a 4 inch hole in the side of the keel about 4 inches up. Then you can see what you have. Either RUSTED MUSH or a mixture of rusted steel shot and old resins. On some boats you have to make the hole larger and start digging everything out. Some areas were dry, some areas just clumps of shot with resin balls. Once everything is removed and you can see that the centerboard trunk is ok or might need a lam to beef it up....you can preweigh some some ingots and set them in place. But eventually you will have to reglass over any holes in the side of the keel and make a hole in the cabin floor to pour some (preweighed) lead shot to get the weight desired and fill up the cavity. After that, some slightly hot (depends on outside air temp) resin is poured over the top, soaking the new lead. Then glass over and re-gel coat the floor. One thing to do when the keel is empty is make sure the trunk and plywood ballast dam is properly bonded with mat/cloth. No use letting water work it's way in at this point. No leaks is best. Be well See some of you at Lake Havasu..!!! WOOP.! Bob (949) 489-8227 www.montgomeryboats.com www.norseayachts.com
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 08:24:02 -0600 From: thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: Montgomery 17 steel ballast replacement.
Steve, The email address Skip gave me is Nebwest2@aol.com. Also got a second address for a John Owens, jowoodworks.com, which may be worth a look also. Good luck, Tom B
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:34 PM, stevetrapp <stevetrapp@q.com> wrote:
Does he have an address? A phone number? What city? What state?
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Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 6:39 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Montgomery 17 steel ballast replacement.
Tom,
Sean Mulligan performed this type of surgery on his M-23 "Dauntless". He used to have a great site that profiled the whole process. I'm sure he will respond and give you as much information as you need.
Good Luck with the project!!
Skip
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Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 9:05 pm Subject: M_Boats: Montgomery 17 steel ballast replacement.
Anybody figure out how to replace the steel stampings with lead in the centerboard trunk once the steel has expanded from corrosion and pinched the centerboard tight? Were the steel pellets bedded with anything or just dumped into the cavity?
Thanks for any ideas about this.
Tom Buzzi M17, 258,"Social Security"