My guess is that swap shops and salvage yards on the Gulf coast of Florida (Redneck Riviera) west to Texas are full of exactly what you are looking for. All kinds of boat parts should be available as salvage off hundreds if not thousands of boats that would have been damaged beyond repair. Don't know if there is an online source or not...or how a guy on the west coast could find what he is looking for. There probably are not that many variations....so maybe you need to find a match for a boom off a common boat type....say an O'Day, Hunter or Catalina and start from there. Freight would probably be 2X what you would pay for the boom. On 1/17/06 4:45 PM, "Rmceagrella@aol.com" <Rmceagrella@aol.com> wrote:

HERE, HERE, OLD MAN!..... Rebuilding these babies aint for the weak hearted. Just blew out the boom on old M23 #017, which had been seriously bent by the previous owner. Had it 98% strait very easily. However, never being happy with pretty damn good, I went for that last 2%. Which took about 5000% more force and BOOM....Get it "boom?"... I knew it was stupid, my wife certainly won't let me forget it was stupid and God knows my rebuilding budget won't let me for get it. But, oh well, if Sean can keep swinging so can I...by golly! Anyway anybody out there know of a suitable 112" extrusion that I can get, so as to reuse the hardware? If I have to I can probably/hopefully get it through rig-rite on the East coast. Any one know of a mast "superstore" on the West coast? Also to those I e-mailed trying to find out if my mast was original, the dilemma is over thanks to Sean and his kindness in sending pictures to me. It is original. Oh and old #017 is finally being worked on again by the very nice but overbooked boatworks. I'll talk to ya all later. Tx Rick _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats

I bought the bare tubes for both the mast and boom of the 23 from Alexander-Roberts in Irvine, CA but that was a long time ago. They MIGHT still be in business, if not someone might know who bought their assets. Can't imagine someone selling those stacks of new spars in their yard for scrap. I believe that Iricson used the same spars on their 25. Hope this helps. Jerry jerrymontgomery.org ----- Original Message ----- From: <Rmceagrella@aol.com> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 2:45 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Thanks for the help!

HERE, HERE, OLD MAN!..... Rebuilding these babies aint for the weak hearted. Just blew out the boom on old M23 #017, which had been seriously bent by the previous owner. Had it 98% strait very easily. However, never being happy with pretty damn good, I went for that last 2%. Which took about 5000% more force and BOOM....Get it "boom?"... I knew it was stupid, my wife certainly won't let me forget it was stupid and God knows my rebuilding budget won't let me for get it. But, oh well, if Sean can keep swinging so can I...by golly! Anyway anybody out there know of a suitable 112" extrusion that I can get, so as to reuse the hardware? If I have to I can probably/hopefully get it through rig-rite on the East coast. Any one know of a mast "superstore" on the West coast? Also to those I e-mailed trying to find out if my mast was original, the dilemma is over thanks to Sean and his kindness in sending pictures to me. It is original. Oh and old #017 is finally being worked on again by the very nice but overbooked boatworks. I'll talk to ya all later. Tx Rick _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats