Hi Tim, To answer your question directly. There 2 pins. The forward pin retains the centre board in the keel and allows the cast iron centre board to rotate around it when lowering or raising the board. The aft pin is used as a stop to hold and rest the centre board on when it is fully lowered and preventing it from rotating any further. Both of these pins can be easily located by visual inspection. In general there is no reason while you cannot lower the boat into the water with the centre board in that position, however most folks would winch the board up via the centre board pennant (rope) which is attached to the top back of the centre board and is wrapped around the winch located at the just inside the cabin door. Certainly this is the case when placing the boat back onto a trailer... I would recommend you make sure the pennant is in good condition before putting the boat back in the water. Here is a page from the msog.org site that describes the whole arrangement: http://msog.org/models/m17/m-17-cb.cfm Keith *Keith R. Martin* *Vancouver/Burnaby B.C.* Admin - Montgomery Boats Listserv Serenity M17, #353 *http://www.msogphotosite.com/Scripts/Boats/boatsdetail.php?id=105 <http://www.msogphotosite.com/Scripts/Boats/boatsdetail.php?id=105>* On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 12:48, TIm Brown <tim-brown@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Hi…
I currently have my Monte 17 in a local boatyard in Newport Beach California and they have the swing keel down for maintenance and new bottom paint. Does anyone have specs that are readable on how the swing keel works. I am pretty sure there is a pin that keeps the keel from full extension but I don’t know enough about the mechanism to convince them that is should not be put back into the water with the swing keel in that fully extended position. I scoured the Internet looking for specs and cannot find the specs for the swing keel. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you… Tim
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