Frederick M Berthrong wrote:
Hey All You Salty M-17ers,
Has anyone seen a diagram, drawing, cutaway ... whatever that shows the location of the Centers of Gravity and Buoyancy of the M-17 for various degrees of heel? I searched on the MSOG site and the Montgomery site and didn't see anything.
Thanks!
Fred Berthrong "Dulce" M17 300
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I think with a boat as small as the M 17 you could experimentally find the restoring moment by hauling the boat on to her beam ends by a block and line attached to the masthead crane with the boat tied to a dock and a large spring fishing scale terminating this line at the base of the mast. I was able to pull my Nonsuch 26 over to about 60 deg this way and she is 9000 lbs diaplacement. Dick