I almost sold the boat. After 3 mo. of thinking about it and using ideas from the list I jury rigged a puller using all-thread and was able to pull down the center board. Thanks for all of the suggestions. What is the hot tip for a replacement center board. Captin Jim Sadler M-15
Jim, Last Spring we replaced the fiberglass centerboard on our 1988 M17 (same cb as the 15). Our old cb was damaged beyond repair. We ordered a new cb from Bob Eeg. Price with shipping seemed reasonable. He happen to be building a couple of cb's at the time and added our order to his list. We had our replacement in about 2 weeks. You could give Bob a call and get current pricing and availability. In our case he delivered the cb to a local shipper, who I then contacted to make arrangements for packing and shipping, and shipping payment. Randy G. M17 #410 ________________________________ From: montgomery_boats-bounces+randyg=cite.nic.edu@mailman.xmission.com on behalf of Jim Sadler Sent: Mon 3/6/2006 8:11 AM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: M_Boats: M-15 Center Board I almost sold the boat. After 3 mo. of thinking about it and using ideas from the list I jury rigged a puller using all-thread and was able to pull down the center board. Thanks for all of the suggestions. What is the hot tip for a replacement center board. Captin Jim Sadler M-15 _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
Randy is right. Bob is your source for a new board. As this is an M15, with the glass CB and lead keel, what happened to your existing board and where is it damaged? They are known to break if you don't have that pennant adjusted right, such that it drops too far and leverages against the trunk, snapping it. But yours was a stuck board. I don't recall that being much of an issue in the past. Howard On 3/6/06 10:11 AM, "Jim Sadler" <jimsadler@jascopacific.com> wrote:
I almost sold the boat. After 3 mo. of thinking about it and using ideas from the list I jury rigged a puller using all-thread and was able to pull down the center board.
Thanks for all of the suggestions.
What is the hot tip for a replacement center board.
Captin Jim Sadler M-15
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Jim, Howard is right - Bob Eeg is your source. The M15 CB is a very tight fit and if the stopper knot was too large it would cause the board to jamb. I had a bunk board on my trailer getting soft and this would cause to board to wedge in the housing very tightly. I have had to swim under the boat and wiggle it free on occasion. I have subsequently drilled a hole in line with the CB pendant to allow a wooden dowel to be used to push the board down from the top. This works well most of the time. Thanks Doug --- Howard Audsley <haudsley@tranquility.net> wrote:
Randy is right. Bob is your source for a new board.
As this is an M15, with the glass CB and lead keel, what happened to your existing board and where is it damaged? They are known to break if you don't have that pennant adjusted right, such that it drops too far and leverages against the trunk, snapping it. But yours was a stuck board. I don't recall that being much of an issue in the past.
Howard
On 3/6/06 10:11 AM, "Jim Sadler" <jimsadler@jascopacific.com> wrote:
I almost sold the boat. After 3 mo. of thinking about it and using ideas from the list I jury rigged a puller using all-thread and was able to pull down the center board.
Thanks for all of the suggestions.
What is the hot tip for a replacement center board.
Captin Jim Sadler M-15
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Thanks Doug Do you know how to hook-up with Bob Eeg? Thanks again Jim Sadler -----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces+jimsadler=jascopacific.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces+jimsadler=jascopacific.com@mailman.xmis sion.com]On Behalf Of Doug Kelch Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 1:41 PM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: Re: M_Boats: M-15 Center Board Jim, Howard is right - Bob Eeg is your source. The M15 CB is a very tight fit and if the stopper knot was too large it would cause the board to jamb. I had a bunk board on my trailer getting soft and this would cause to board to wedge in the housing very tightly. I have had to swim under the boat and wiggle it free on occasion. I have subsequently drilled a hole in line with the CB pendant to allow a wooden dowel to be used to push the board down from the top. This works well most of the time. Thanks Doug --- Howard Audsley <haudsley@tranquility.net> wrote:
Randy is right. Bob is your source for a new board.
As this is an M15, with the glass CB and lead keel, what happened to your existing board and where is it damaged? They are known to break if you don't have that pennant adjusted right, such that it drops too far and leverages against the trunk, snapping it. But yours was a stuck board. I don't recall that being much of an issue in the past.
Howard
On 3/6/06 10:11 AM, "Jim Sadler" <jimsadler@jascopacific.com> wrote:
I almost sold the boat. After 3 mo. of thinking about it and using ideas from the list I jury rigged a puller using all-thread and was able to pull down the center board.
Thanks for all of the suggestions.
What is the hot tip for a replacement center board.
Captin Jim Sadler M-15
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Jim, Last I knew he was at Bobeeg@earthlink.net You can always use the email at his N'sea Montgomery site. It is a link off of the MSOG.org site. Thanks Doug --- Jim Sadler <jimsadler@jascopacific.com> wrote:
Thanks Doug
Do you know how to hook-up with Bob Eeg?
Thanks again
Jim Sadler
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sion.com]On Behalf Of Doug Kelch Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 1:41 PM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: Re: M_Boats: M-15 Center Board
Jim,
Howard is right - Bob Eeg is your source. The M15 CB is a very tight fit and if the stopper knot was too large it would cause the board to jamb.
I had a bunk board on my trailer getting soft and this would cause to board to wedge in the housing very tightly.
I have had to swim under the boat and wiggle it free on occasion. I have subsequently drilled a hole in line with the CB pendant to allow a wooden dowel to be used to push the board down from the top. This works well most of the time.
Thanks
Doug
--- Howard Audsley <haudsley@tranquility.net> wrote:
Randy is right. Bob is your source for a new board.
As this is an M15, with the glass CB and lead keel, what happened to your existing board and where is it damaged? They are known to break if you don't have that pennant adjusted right, such that it drops too far and leverages against the trunk, snapping it. But yours was a stuck board. I don't recall that being much of an issue in the past.
Howard
On 3/6/06 10:11 AM, "Jim Sadler" <jimsadler@jascopacific.com> wrote:
I almost sold the boat. After 3 mo. of thinking about it and using ideas from the list I jury rigged a puller using all-thread and was able to pull down the center board.
Thanks for all of the suggestions.
What is the hot tip for a replacement center board.
Captin Jim Sadler M-15
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On Mar 6, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Howard Audsley wrote:
As this is an M15, with the glass CB and lead keel...
I'm not sure what year M-15 the original poster has, but I believe the earlier M-15s (early 80s) had steel ballast like the M-17s, so perhaps the centerboards have steel as well. I don't have hard data here, obviously, but thought I'd bring up the possibility (and also not saying this would have been responsible for the board problems). --- Rachel
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