Hi Tom, the M-10 is an excellent boat in my opinion. I have rowed it, sailed it and motored it and it does very well at all but really excels at sailing! I believe that the M-10 is basically the same hull as the fatty knees and both/all were Lyle Hess designs that Jerry produced. I think that all Jerry's dinghys were just excellent sail boats and very versatile but my own experience has only been with the M-10 (&M-15, M-17, M-23). I did have a cape dory 10 but that is really a different generation of dinghy. While I really like the CD-10 it was very heavy. Beautiful boat though. In my opinion you would not be disappointed with an M-10 or the other Montgomery dinghys. Robbin On 2/9/2013 9:11 AM, Thomas Buzzi wrote:
thank you for the info, Robbin. I see you have an M-10. I have wondered how Jerry's shorter boats perform, like the 10. What do you think of the design? I haven't actually even seen one. Can they be sailed? Rowed?
"we cannot control the wind but we can adjust our sails", what a great philosophy. Tom B
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Robbin Roddewig <robbin.roddewig@verizon.net
wrote: I am not sure I saw the web site detailing the ballast replacement in any of the replies, if this is redundant I apologize. The ballast replacement is described step by step in great detail at http://sailhavasu.com/**saildauntless/**havasumontgomerys.piczo.com/** oldhomepage15bc.html<http://sailhavasu.com/saildauntless/havasumontgomerys.piczo.com/oldhomepage15bc.html> under ballast replacement. This should give you more than enough information about the process that Sean went through. But of course, these boats are like people and your process may not be identical as I am sure there were variations during builds from boat to boat, year to year etc. At least your project will be a miniature version of what Sean did!
Good luck!
Robbin M-23 & M-10
On 2/8/2013 11:00 AM, stevetrapp wrote:
Thanx, Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Buzzi" <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.** xmission.com <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com>> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 6:24 AM 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?
----- Original Message ----- From: <wcampion@aol.com> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.**xm**ission.com <http://xmission.com><; montgomery_boats@**mailman.xmission.com<montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> 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
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Buzzi <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> To: montgomery_boats <montgomery_boats@mailman.**xm**ission.com<http://xmission.com> <montgomery_boats@**mailman.xmission.com<montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> 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"