You can remove the sheaves and clean them up and file off any burrs or nicks. Or you can replace them with plastic sheaves if you are going to use all rope halyards. The specs are: 1-1/2” dia 1/4” bore 3/8” thickness Henry Monita M17 #310 On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 8:36 AM Dave Scobie <scoobscobie@gmail.com> wrote:
Gerry:
The masthead sheeves will have been made for wire to rope halyards - what was 'all the rage' back when the boat was built. Wire was used to reduce stretch.
For the main halyard use 1/4" line. For the jib use 5/16" line.
Below is a link that will download a rigging spec sheet hosted on the MSOGphotosite.com that may assist you. John Manfredi put this together for a newer build boat so some things are different.
http://msogphotosite.com/Scripts/Information/downloaddocument.php?id=199
Anything else let the group know!
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 5:58 AM Gerry Lempicki via montgomery_boats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Hi everyone, I bought a 1974 M17 over the winter. It needs some work to be ready to go. I’m figuring some things out, but I am confused about
how
the running rigging was originally run and set up. And actually what size/material was used too. The sheaves in the masthead have fairly small grooves. It doesn’t appear that I got any halyards or lines with the boat. I see the rigging instructions for the M-15; is there anything similar out there for the M-17? I’ve had no luck searching. Or a list of materials needed to replace all running rigging? Thanks for any input on this. Gerry
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