Thank you Jerry for your help. I'm grateful for any info or parts I might buy to get the old girl back on the water again asap. I'm attaching a couple pictures of the bottom of the boat as I received it along with the bottom of the mast. The mast extrusion is 2.00 x 2.50 and it doesn't look like that matches up with a dwyer mast. I'm assuming this is not correct, but the way the standing rigging was sized there is no room to adjust to raise it more thana fraction of an inch. But since it's 1/8 rather than 3/32, I probably will redo the rigging anyway... I don't know much about history........(wait.. isn't that a song?) On Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 10:04:28 AM PDT, jerry montgomery <jmbn1@outlook.com> wrote: Yes, it was meant to go fast; we designed it to be a yacht club boat for evening series and weekend regattas. Very quick for a 12' boat, especially in light and moderate air. The mast step is a casting that is screwed to the bottom of the boat and simply fits inside the mast. I might have some in one of my junk hardware boxes and i'll try to remember to take a look if your boat doesn't have one. Rigging was 3/32" ________________________________ From: Lawrence Winiarski via montgomery_boats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 6:37 AM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: Lawrence Winiarski <lawrence_winiarski@yahoo.com> Subject: M_Boats: Fitting for bottom of mast for Montgomery 12 and lots of questions. I'm going to be getting a Montgomery 12 back on the water again and I've got lots and lots of questions. It's mostly there, but there look like some problems. It seems there is a lot of sail for a light boat, so I'm guessing it was meant to go fast. How is the mast for the Montgomery 12 supposed to fit on the bottom of the boat? was it originally supposed to have a tabernacle like the M15? Are the sidestays and forestay supposed to be 1/8 "? Seems the hanks for the jib would prefer 3/32" Any pictures or descriptions would be great.
