[alberg30] Re: Going the distance/measurements

[Jacques Guerette]

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

Gordon,
Thanks for the numbers!

Jacques

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gordon E. White [SMTP:gewhite at crosslink.net]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 14, 1999 6:54 AM
> To:	alberg30 at onelist.com
> Subject:	[alberg30] Re: Going the distance/measurements
> 
> From: "Gordon E. White" <gewhite at crosslink.net>
> 
> Jacques:
> 
> On my boat (#275) I get 179 inches from the aft side of the mast, along
> the top of the boom plus 19 inches from the end of the boom to the
> backstay, a total of 198 inches or 16 ft 6 inches. Keep in mind this was
> measured with the winter cover on and the boom might have been off of
> level,  though it looked level as far as I could tell. I was doing this
> by myself, so had to hook the end of the tape on the aft end of the boom
> and bring it up to the mast. I would give it an accuracy of +/- 1 inch.
> 
> Greg:
>     On my boat the jib sheet block tracks are 18 inches long. From the
> forestay to the forward end of each track is 173 inches (14 ft 5
> inches). The forward end of each track is 12 inches from the outside of
> the toe rail and the aft end is 15 1/2 inches from the outside of the
> toe rail.
>     The center line of the track at the aft end is 41 inches from center
> line of the boat. This last measurement is a little suspect since I had
> to measure from the center of the boom and eyeball the center line of
> the track from above. The boom could have been off-center (though not
> much since it is tied to the backstay) and without a plumb line I could
> have had some parallax in eyeballing the end of the track.
> 
>     It is of course possible that different boats have different
> measurements by a small amount.
> 
>     One could do this better in the summer! No snow here on the Bay, but
> fog with about 1/16 mile visibility, dripping light rain, about 35
> degrees. The boat is on stands in dry storage at the moment. It's nice
> to sit here nice and warm and dry in my 2nd floor office and watch the
> diving ducks on Wooldridge Cove.
> 
>                                                             - Gordon
> White
> 
> 
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