Hi Jason, Congrats on acquiring your M17! These are great sailing, seaworthy little boats... I hope you enjoy yours as much as I do mine... I would love to get together and compare boats.. It's interesting we are only about an hour's drive apart by car, but it's at least one very long sailing day (with the right tides & weather) for each of us plus a border crossing to connect on the water! Like many of us here on the forum I have been taping away at projects on the boat for the past 5 years I have owned her.. pics of Serenity can be found at http://www.msogphotosite.com/Scripts/Boats/boatsdetail.php?id=105 Serenity will only be in the water till mid Sept as sadly I must pull her out onto the trailer early this season due to travel and work commitments. That said I am happy give a tour at any time on or off the water... Keith *Keith R. Martin, P.Eng*. Serenity, M17 #353 Burnaby, BC On 21 August 2018 at 20:07, Jason Leckie <leckie.jas@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Keith, Good to hear from a 'local'. Perhaps we can meet up some time to compare boats, maybe after sailing season I can [image: image.png] come by with my boat on the trailer or something like that.
My boat is the 3 berth model with the miniature galley and the 'little tikes' sink, as somebody so eloquently put it.
Jason Leckie 'Kuma' 1980 Montgomery 17 Vancouver, BC / Point Roberts, WA
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 3:56 PM Keith R. Martin < keith.richard.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Jason Leckie,
Keith Martin here in Burnaby BC... Nice to hear of another M17 "close by".... I have a 1982 4 berth version, which as best as I can figure it is one of the first of the "Version 2" M17 molds... I am seasonally moored at Reed Point Marina in Port Moody.
John Schinnerer - Are you still looking to hit the Gulf Islands in Sept?
Keith
*Keith R. Martin, P.Eng*.
*Serenity, M17 #353*
On 2 August 2018 at 22:21, John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net> wrote:
There are a few up in your vicinity - Keith Martin in Vancouver BC for one, I forget who else...?
I hope to get my M17 up that way in September sometime, or south Puget Sound at least, but preferably San Juans/Canadian gulf islands.
Lots of pics on the MSOG site and elsewhere, but of course it's harder to see details vs. a live boat to look at.
cheers, John
On 08/02/2018 01:48 PM, Jason Leckie wrote:
I see, ok, it was a little disconcerting to see but now that i know that it is normal I can rest easy.
I have still never seen another Montgomery before in my life, so it definitely would be nice to see another one to compare notes.
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018, 1:33 PM Dave Scobie, <scoobscobie@gmail.com> wrote:
Simple answer is the cockpit floors have greater slope towards the drains
and are higher above the waterlines.
:: Dave Scobie :: M17 #375 SWEET PEA - m17-375.com
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018, 1:27 PM Jason Leckie <leckie.jas@gmail.com> wrote:
Dave:
Hmm, ok, good to know. How does the newer Sage cockpit drain get
around
this?
I see now that the plugs that came with the boat are there for good reason..
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018, 1:03 PM Jason Leckie, <leckie.jas@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All, its me again, > > I certainly seem to have no shortage of questions for this forum. I was > out
> for a sail off of Point Roberts yesterday in a pretty good breeze, > maybe
15
> knots and found my M17 to sail quite nicely indeed. This was > essentially
my
> first sail on my new boat and she performed admirably. > > At the same time though, a new issue popped up. The cockpit drain is > acting
> like the opposite of a drain and the cockpit was taking on water. Back > at
port, when sitting in the cockpit, the water in the drain pipe, is sits > just below the level of the cockpit floor. > > I presume a previous owner of this boat did some work on this part of > the
boat and is no longer configured as originally manufactured. > > What is the correct configuration of this pipe? The thru hull fitting > is
located way below the water line, which I am guessing is not a problem > as
long as it is configured correctly. Do these drains ever have check > valves
> installed on them? > > Thanks in advance for everyone's input. > > Jason Leckie > 1980 M17 'Kuma' > Point Roberts, WA > >
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