Thanks Connie! You are a bottomless font of useful info! I definitely won't be trying the cockpit locker modification until next year at the earliest, although I desperately need it. I have as yet NO experience in fiberglass or gelcoat working and don't want that to be the project I learn on. Would you (or anyone else out there) have a suggestion for a minor, perhaps less visible fiberglass/gelcoat modification that would make a good starter project for us neophytes? Steve M15 #152 Conbert H Benneck <chbenneck@juno.com>@mailman.xmission.com on 01/02/2002 05:36:33 PM Please respond to montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Sent by: montgomery_boats-admin@mailman.xmission.com To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com cc: Subject: Re: M_Boats: First test sail - guess I'll be buying a centerboard Steve, I have the same bulkhead that you see. It keeps thing in place in the sail locker. This bulkhead - about 1 foot high is located on both sides of the boat. My port sail locker, however, has a wall on the inside side, i.e., going from the side of the cockpit seat wall to the bottom of the hull. This keeps thing in the sail locker from rolling under the cockpit sole, and disappearing forever! Now that I cut out the starboard side shallow locker, there is no wall down there. All that is located there are the styrofoam flotation logs. So, the new storage area is only good for large, easily reached and grabbed objects; which is why I have my Bimini, my extra cushions, boarding ladder, etc. stored there. Incidentally, I drilled holes on each end of the shallow locker; threaded about an 1/8th inch line through the holes, put on a piece of plastic tubing as a handle, and tied off the lines on the outside of the shallow locker. This way, I have readily accessible handles for lifting out the locker when I wan to get at the "goodies" that are stored underneath. If you are thinking of doing this modification, let me know and I'll give you more detailed instructions on how I did it. No sense of reinventing the wheel! Connie ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats