Rusty, I'm not sure what year your M-15 is, but ours came original with the port cockpit locker open to the interior of the boat. Our starboard locker is not open to the interior, but rather sealed off and has a volume about the size of a medium sized ice-chest. Both lockers have hasps on them for securing. In the open-to-interior port locker we keep our spare fuel, anchor and rode, spare lines and paddle. I keep our head sails in their bag in the cabin of the boat, and our keep our main tied as neatly as possible on the boom (we trailer sail). I've often wondered if having both the weight of the anchor & rode and outboard on port side gave our M-15 a slight tilt toward that side. I try to store the anchor as low as possible within the hull. I feel bad when deploying and retrieving the anchor out of the locker as the anchor & chain bang around on the gel-coat. I also learned to tie-off the anchor at the chain when retrieving and be sure and clean it off before hauling it up into the cockpit. On one trip this past summer I pulled up what must seemed like a small forest with a mud slide attached into the cockpit <grin>. Randy G. M-15 #407 -----Original Message----- From: Rusty Knorr [mailto:mazemusic@yahoo.com] Sent: Thu 10/23/2003 7:19 PM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Cc: Subject: Re: M_Boats: bow anchoring Hey, Connie. My M-15 has 2 small compartments under the cockpit seats and I was wondering if it is possible to open one or both up for the sail lockers I have heard people describe. How dificult would this be? I am thinking just cutting the bottom out and leaving it open to the area below and putting a locking latch on the lid. Would it be too deep to get to anything below after doing that? Thanks for the tips!!! -Rusty --- chbenneck@juno.com wrote: > Hi MC > > I have an M15; I keep the working anchor in the port > sail locker and set > the anchor from the cockpit. > > When the anchor is down and holding, I walk the rode > to the bow and put > it on the cleat. > > There is no need to do this at the bow. > > Connie > > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats