Hello wrinkle boat owners, Well, it is with disappointment that I need to email the group. I had an accident with my mast while getting the boat ready for the road. It was my fault (really dumb mistake), but the mast fell and now has a big dent. It will need replaced. It’s tough to stomach when you do something dumb and have it cause a problem like this. I feel like I let down the entire wrinkle boat community since there isn’t many of the 23’s around. I need to find a rigging shop that can build a new one. I have insurance on the boat, but it will only cover $14,500. I’ve contacted 3 different rigging shops here in the Northwest. The first one wants 20K. I haven’t heard back from the other two. Does anyone know of a good vendor or the best way to approach this? I need the price to be below $14,500. Thanks, Gerry M23 Dhana Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Gary H.Oberbeck <fairandsquare1@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2022 3:16:23 PM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com>; wcampion@aol.com <wcampion@aol.com> Subject: M_Boats: Re: Erasing Age Lines Great! You have quite the fleet there! Have fun,( the dirty washes off) Go sailing! G0 On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 3:34 PM Skip Campion via montgomery_boats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Well, it was a long time in coming but it was definitely worth the wait. Ten years ago I stumbled across a rare M-5’8”. It was severely abused and needed lots of love. I had visions of restoring this little gem and came to the conclusion this project was going to be challenging. If I were to be successful with this restoration, I would need to use my ultimate multi-purpose tool. It can fix anything with ease. So I broke out my checkbook and took the little pram to a professional. This past weekend I picked up my renewed boat! The only problem I discovered..….the Chesapeake Bay and it's tributaries are so dirty, I’m not sure I want to place my new boat in such murky water! It would be an absolute shame to get this little gem dirty. 🤣
I’ve attached a few before and after pictures. My goal was to restored the pram to match my M-15. I plan to tow the pram behind me when I’m out for long weekends. I’m sure there’ll be a learning curve figuring out how best to tow the pram and transitioning between the two. But this will have to wait until spring. Skip Campion M-15 “Wild Guppy” 1982 #201 M-5’8” “Lil’ Guppy” 1972 #028