My original M15 and my present M15 had the original black nylon jam cleats. They all wore out in time, allowing the halyards to slip through. Now I have mounted really neat English-made vertical cam cleats from West Marine. They seemed terribly small when they arrived, but they are up to the strain most admirably. They are keyed red and green, and I have three each side of the aft end of the cabin top. Port to starboard they hold: Jib sheet, one end of my double- ended topping lift/Lazy Jacks (the other end is near the aft end of the boom), jib halyard, main downhaul, main halyard and jib sheet. Lines for the jib brailer and jib downhaul are on the outboard side of the port forward gunwale. Photos of the cam cleats if anyone asks, but not on here. John R. Butler theoldcat@cox.net First M15 was "Joy", '83 #264 Now sail "Rejoyce!", '86 #361
John, I'd like to see pics offline at seagray@embarqmail.com Thanks, Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "John R. Butler" <theoldcat@cox.net> To: "Montgomery Boats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 9:26 AM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Cam cleats
My original M15 and my present M15 had the original black nylon jam cleats. They all wore out in time, allowing the halyards to slip through. Now I have mounted really neat English-made vertical cam cleats from West Marine. They seemed terribly small when they arrived, but they are up to the strain most admirably. They are keyed red and green, and I have three each side of the aft end of the cabin top. Port to starboard they hold: Jib sheet, one end of my double- ended topping lift/Lazy Jacks (the other end is near the aft end of the boom), jib halyard, main downhaul, main halyard and jib sheet. Lines for the jib brailer and jib downhaul are on the outboard side of the port forward gunwale. Photos of the cam cleats if anyone asks, but not on here.
John R. Butler theoldcat@cox.net First M15 was "Joy", '83 #264 Now sail "Rejoyce!", '86 #361
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Hi John... Could you post your photos on the trailersailor.com forum....so we could all see them...? Another good thing about the trailersailor forum besides not having to register is you can post unlimited Photos in your message. http://bbs.trailersailor.com/forums/montgomery/index.cgi Thanks.! Happy Thanksgiving to all........! Bob
To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> From: theoldcat@cox.net> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:26:48 -0600> Subject: Re: M_Boats: Cam cleats> > My original M15 and my present M15 had the original black nylon jam > cleats. They all wore out in time, allowing the halyards to slip > through. Now I have mounted really neat English-made vertical cam > cleats from West Marine. They seemed terribly small when they > arrived, but they are up to the strain most admirably. They are keyed > red and green, and I have three each side of the aft end of the cabin > top. Port to starboard they hold: Jib sheet, one end of my double- > ended topping lift/Lazy Jacks (the other end is near the aft end of > the boom), jib halyard, main downhaul, main halyard and jib sheet. > Lines for the jib brailer and jib downhaul are on the outboard side > of the port forward gunwale. Photos of the cam cleats if anyone asks, > but not on here.> > John R. Butler> theoldcat@cox.net> First M15 was "Joy", '83 #264> Now sail "Rejoyce!", '86 #361> > > > > _______________________________________________> http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
folks: SCRED, my M15, also has cam cleats for the halyards and the jib sheets (jib tracks also) rigged on the cabin top. i've posted pictures on trailersailer.com's Mboat forum. i can post more detailed photos if requested. dave scobie M15 #288 - SCRED visit Scred's www-site: http://www.freewebs.com/m15-named-scred --- On Thu, 11/27/08, Bob From California <ocean37@hotmail.com> wrote: Hi John... Could you post your photos on the trailersailor.com forum....so we could all see them...? ... Thanks.! Happy Thanksgiving to all........! Bob
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