good show. Good luck with the outboard. As concerns if it floats, on my first Monty 17 built in 1974 there was not any reinforcement inside the hull where the boat sat on the aft end of a bunkboard. So whenever the boat bounced or someone got into it while it was on the trailer the hull flexed over the end of the padded bunkboard. Eventually the inside corner of a simulated plank seam split right along the fold for about 6 inches. I noticed the hull indenting there before but figured the flex would handle it. Wrong. It weakened and split, as mentioned. It required repairing the sprung hull plus adding a half of a two foot length of cardboard tube rugs are wound on 9( I sawed the tube in half lengthwise) and that was fiberglassed heavily into the inside of the hull to spread the load from the end of the bunkboard. I did both sided while I was at it. My latest M17 built in 1977 has reinforcement in those two areas put in at the factory. Fair winds for your launch, Tom B This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:43 AM, David Rifkind <drifkind@acm.org> wrote:
Epoxied the sprung seam Sunday and yesterday the centerboard was back in. There is still a lot undone, but in theory at least, we’re close to being able to put the boat in water and see if it floats! Today I’ll try to get the outboard to run.