I've been looking at Bill Lamica's photo site (thanks again for such a useful resource, Bill!), and there are a couple of older M17s there that have a mainsheet traveler arrangement remarkably close to what I'm thinking of doing on my M15. Fred Berthong's "Dulce" and Perry Bolin's "Windsong" both appear to have a traveler track tucked up against the companionway with the mainsheet angled aft and attached to the boom about midway. There's one picture of Windsong's cockpit in particular that has a great view. Perhaps it would make more sense to mount the traveler track on the cockpit floor on my M15 just a hair aft of the companionway shelf, thus clearing the shelf, but keeping the track away from my big feet. I could put the boom attachment point aft as it is on these two M17s and keep a little better sail shape that way. I'm wondering if perhaps this was the original design of the M17. If so, I'd like to hear from the owners (if they lurk here) how that arrangement works for them, especially in regard to sail shape control. Does anyone here know if those two boats exhibit what was Jerry Montgomery's original design? Or are they owner's modifications? David =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David W. Wood -=- dwood@dwoodworks.com 1981 M15 -=- Hull #163