[alberg30] Re: rigging control organizer

[Jacques Guerette]

From: "Jacques Guerette" <jguerett at nortelnetworks.com>

Greg,
This is one of the first items I added to my 1976 A30.  I love it!  I agree
the thickness is, well, too thick.  Mine is made from quarter-inch material
and it is as sturdy as you can want.  The organizer helps me run a boom
vang, jib and main halyards, topping lift, and 2 single-line reefing lines
aft.  It is neat, clean and I didn't have to drill a pile of holes into the
mast.

If I had to do it again, I'd think about adding another attachment point to
the forward part of the organizer.  This would have to be carefully designed
so as not to interfere with the forward hatch, but it could be useful to add
a block there for, say, a spinnaker pole downhaul.  At present, I'm using
that region to affix my whisker pole which is stored vertically along the
mast.

Jacques

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	greg vandenberg [SMTP:fashionguy at mailhost.kal.ameritech.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 24, 1999 9:55 AM
> To:	alberg30
> Subject:	[alberg30] rigging control organizer
> 
> From: greg vandenberg <fashionguy at mailhost.kal.ameritech.net>
> 
> Question...	Has anyone tried the "rigging control organizer" that was
> shown in
> the 1990 Alberg maintenance manual? It was the ss plate that was installed
> under the mast step and had attachment points for blocks to bring the
> halyards
> back to the cockpit. If you have experience with this I would like to hear
> your opinion. The drawing shown represents the ss plate as 0.5 thk.. which
> is
> over designed but other than that I would like to hear of any nifty ways
> of
> turning halyards aft from the mast.
> 
> regard, 
> greg
> 
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