Thanks for the mention of Dwyer. The mast I built for Nereid, while sexy, is too heavy and could stand to be a foot longer. There are times you just have to bite the bullet and buy stuff.
Of course, that means I will need hardware to go with the spar. All of my mainsails will need to be changed from other attachment styles to slugs or just get laced on, except for my C class canoe sail, which is set up for a mast groove. Nothing is simple.
2 encounters-Back in th 60's 3 Forest Service guys who were sailers would go to the Newport beach launching ramp and watch and desire the few trailerable keel sailboats being launched on Saturday morn. (one of us had a Lido 14 but we lusted after the ability to cross the seas. A gentleman was launching a 20ft boat he said he had just built and ask us if we would help him launch and he would take us for a sail. Of course we agreed--It was Lyle. Many years later I was preparing my Montgomery 17 to race at the Whiskeytown Regatta when a gentleman walked up and said there was a better way to hoist the mast. He said he had built my boat-it was Jerry! I've been touched by 2 giants of the small Craft world- Steve Fitch
Thanks for pulling this one off the shelf, Josh. More Jerry Montgomery wisdom!
Thanks for the mention of Dwyer. The mast I built for Nereid, while sexy, is too heavy and could stand to be a foot longer. There are times you just have to bite the bullet and buy stuff.
Of course, that means I will need hardware to go with the spar. All of my mainsails will need to be changed from other attachment styles to slugs or just get laced on, except for my C class canoe sail, which is set up for a mast groove. Nothing is simple.
2 encounters-Back in th 60's 3 Forest Service guys who were sailers would go to the Newport beach launching ramp and watch and desire the few trailerable keel sailboats being launched on Saturday morn. (one of us had a Lido 14 but we lusted after the ability to cross the seas. A gentleman was launching a 20ft boat he said he had just built and ask us if we would help him launch and he would take us for a sail. Of course we agreed--It was Lyle. Many years later I was preparing my Montgomery 17 to race at the Whiskeytown Regatta when a gentleman walked up and said there was a better way to hoist the mast. He said he had built my boat-it was Jerry! I've been touched by 2 giants of the small Craft world- Steve Fitch