Jim, We had a stuck fiberglass center board on our 88 M17 (same cb as on your 15). I did want to drill an access hole in the cabin and I suspected our cb was damaged from the 17 sitting to low on the trailer. My first attempt was to try using a wood dowel, then a steel rod, working from the cockpit through the cb pendant hole. This didn't work and I would discourage anyone from trying it if the cb is anything other than lightly stuck. The cb is weak where the pendant attaches and could be easily damaged. If you do pound from the top keep in mind that the cb is a fiberglass-lead-fiberglass sandwich. So think in terms of how hard you would pound a dowel against your hull or deck. Instead, per Jerry's advise, we lifted the back end of our 17 up off the trailer and working from underneath clamped a pair of vise grips & rag over the aft end of cb. Then leveraged the vise grips against cb-trunk using a piece of wood as a buffer. This worked to free our really stuck cb without causing any additional damage. You can get quite a bit of controlled leverage this way. Randy Graves M17 #419 N.S.Dinky ________________________________ From: montgomery_boats-bounces+randyg=cite.nic.edu@mailman.xmission.com on behalf of Jim Sadler Sent: Mon 8/15/2005 8:52 AM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: M_Boats: M-15 Center Board Anyone ever had a problem with the center board being stuck retracted? How do you get it to come down? I have pulled real hard and it seems to be stuck solid. Thanks Jim Sadler _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats