[Alberg30] Spinnaker question

[Bill Blevins]

I decided not to go with the flush mounted cheek blocks and went with two
regular blocks.

Bill

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On 7/15/02 7:28 AM, "Bill Blevins" <bblevins at fredericksburg.com> wrote:

> Where are you mounting the blocks for the spinnaker guy and sheet? How far
> back? And on the wooden rail or on the deck?
> 
> On most boats I've been on before, two cheek blocks are mounted flush on the
> deck as far aft as possible. On my Alberg 30 the toe rails are at least 2
> inches tall, so that won't work unless I mount them on the wooden rail
> itself. Is that what you did?
> 
> I bought two Harken air blocks yesterday with the thought of mounting on one
> of the stanchion base "hooks" but now I noticed that the aft stanchions (for
> the stern rail) on the sides don't have that hook, just the ones in the
> middle of the boat. It looks like mounting in the wood is the best approach
> to keep them as far aft as possible. (the next stanchions are about even
> with the winch and that seems way to far forward to me).
> 
> (We are going to do this with only the two standard winches until we can
> afford to add two more next year...The other questions I have are related to
> holding all of those lines in the cockpit at the same time...The one jib
> sheet that is working, the pole lift and downhaul (I'm going to try to run
> these aft) plus the guy and spinnaker sheet (one of these is easy because
> there will be a free winch on one side). I'm trying to get my mind around
> where to "hold" everything while I drop the jib and get reorganized to fly
> the chute).)
> 
> Note: This weekend I got a long way in rerouting all of the electric to
> switch box in the aft port shelf compartment (in the door). It's going to
> work great. Similar to the photo on the Alberg site where someone else did a
> similar thing. That photo though looks like they ran everything to the
> starboard side. Much much easier to work on with the fold down door.


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