M_Boats: Hula Pie's Keel

Hello Lenny, She is a 1974 M17, Hull #025 and has the conventional keel with a cast iron centerboard and a small winch inside just below the companionway sill. I assume the ballast is iron rather than lead. She has a cutout in the transom, port side, that looks like it is original as Jerry built her. Large cockpit locker to port and small locker aft starboard- not really lockers as both open directly to the hull. By going headfirst into the starboard quarterberth I can access the single cockpit drain and fittings. Do you think your '77 was original or modified? Jerry wrote in his history that a few fixed keel boats were built but I don't recall hearing about a swing keel model. Ron