Hey Bones, Thanks for the picture. Man does that make me want to get mine out on the water!! I do believe my shade of yellow is a bit more intense than yours but it may just be a matter of polishing this or that. Is that kickup rudder your own design? I am still wondering where to place my ob on this hull. I also have to hang a reboarding ladder back there too. (Side note: reboarding becomes very important once you fall overboard and find out only then that you cannot clamber up a tall wet hull and your butt is hanging down in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida with all those sharks and barracuda looking for lunch). I know they are down there. I used to scuba dive in the same area. I understand that the forehatch is hinged on the front so it won't blow open during transit to the ramp but it seems like it would be better for foredeck sail handling in dicey weather if the hatch was hinged on the aft side. Of course then you would have to figure out someway not to snag the jib sheets on it if you left it open even a crack while sailing. Hummmmm. Now that I have mine up on the jacks I see I have to drop the board as some work done by a previous owner is flaking off the sides of the board and must have caused a considerable amount of drag the last time it was sailed. Now I get to dig a hole through my newly installed patio pavers and figure out how to get the board out of the hole after it lands in it. lol. Hey what else would I have to do now that I am retired if not this kind of problem solving. Love it. Fair winds, Tom B M17 #258 What did you do to get these pics on the site? How do you make them small enough to stay within the 3000mb limit?? On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:29 AM, bownez@juno.com <bownez@juno.com> wrote:

Hi Tom,

That is a good question for Jerry.

There does seen to be a number of yellow hulled M17's from the 1976 early era. I have seen several in Minnesota. Sailboats Inc. was a dealer of the Montgomery line here back then, and sold many. Mine is a 1976 hull #92, with 3 gudgeons for the rudder. It is a soft, faded looking yellow. The later yellow models seem a much brighter yellow, almost an OSHA bright. Jerry must have really been cranking out boats then, Larry's1976 M17 (which was at Havasu last year) is hull #200.

Mine could benefit from some gelcoat polishing, but, I'd rather be on the water with her.

I'll try to attach a pic. It was taken in the Apostle Is. on Superior last July.

Later gang.

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