Carlos: Here is a message I published earlier about putting my M17 in my garage. If you need 2 more inches of clearance under the door, try folding the tongue jack and dropping the tongue down on the floor and sliding it into garage. My garage door is 7 foot 10 inches high, so there was enough clearance for the bow pulpit. With the tongue jack all the way down, the bow pulpit height is 7'1" above the floor and is still the highest point on the boat. I put the boat at a slight angle to keep the motor bracket out of the wall and remove the tongue to fit boat and trailer inside the garage, which is 20.5 feet long inside with the door closed. The mast is outside hung under the eves. There is a little clearance at each end of the boat and trailer, so it would actually fit in a 20 foot long space, in case anyone wants to know. The width occupied in this situation is 8 feet. So in a nutshell, the M17 with bow pulpit on the current 2005 Pacific trailer requires minimum storage LxWxH dimensions of 20' x 8' x 7' 2", not including mast, which is ~ 22 feet long. --Gary Hyde Pullman, WA gmhyde1@mac.com M17 #637 'Hydeaway 2' "...There's nothing quite like messing about in boats..." On Jul 11, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Carlos Albar-Diaz wrote:

Dear everyone,

I have done some research as to how to get my M-17 to fit in a garage that is 20ft long and has a 7-ft high door opening. I concluded that it can be done with some modification to the trailer, but (because the trailer is old and rusty) it may be better to get a new trailer if it fits in a garage without any changes. This is important because I am moving to Denver and it will be difficult to store teh boat there if it is not in the garage.

Bob Eeg (thanks to him!) suggested that some M-17 owners with a trailer from Pacific trailers had no trouble in fitting the boat and trailer into a 20 ft long garage (presumably with a standard 7-ft high door opening) by removing the tongue (to fit in the 20 ft) and unhooking from the car (to lower the pulpit below 7 ft).

Can you please let me know if you have any experience (good or bad) in parking your M-17 inside your garage on a trailer made by Pacific Trailers? I am particulary interested in knowing:

- height of your door opening -length of the garage - how high does the pulpit stand (from the ground) when hooked to the car - how high does the pulpit stand when unhooked form the car, with the tongue sitting on the floor. - what special technique do you use (deflating tires, unhook from car and lower tongue by hand and remove tongue before pushing teh boat into the garage)?

I will greatly appreciate your help!

Regards

Carlos _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats