John, I'd like to see pics offline at seagray@embarqmail.com Thanks, Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "John R. Butler" <theoldcat@cox.net> To: "Montgomery Boats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 9:26 AM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Cam cleats
My original M15 and my present M15 had the original black nylon jam cleats. They all wore out in time, allowing the halyards to slip through. Now I have mounted really neat English-made vertical cam cleats from West Marine. They seemed terribly small when they arrived, but they are up to the strain most admirably. They are keyed red and green, and I have three each side of the aft end of the cabin top. Port to starboard they hold: Jib sheet, one end of my double- ended topping lift/Lazy Jacks (the other end is near the aft end of the boom), jib halyard, main downhaul, main halyard and jib sheet. Lines for the jib brailer and jib downhaul are on the outboard side of the port forward gunwale. Photos of the cam cleats if anyone asks, but not on here.
John R. Butler theoldcat@cox.net First M15 was "Joy", '83 #264 Now sail "Rejoyce!", '86 #361
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