[Alberg30] Dutchman reefing and electric fuel pumps.

[Dave Terrell]

My boat came with the halyards led back. this was done by putting footblocks at the mast base and running them to cheek blocks or fair leads as the case may be. The halyard lines "span the valley."  This requires some careful foot work when reefing.  A better way would be to use a combination of halyard lift blocks and over the top blocks and that would be more work.

>>> johnbrugeman at ameritech.net 06/09/02 06:50AM >>>
Peter Amos

Have use the Dutchman system since I purchased hull #305 (Mermaid) with my halyards still at the mast very successfully.  Your mainsail would have to be redone to accomodate the Dutchman lines because the are threaded through the sail and attached to the top lift. You can bring your halyards aft to work from the cockpit with some doing also.  

John Brugeman
#305 Mermaid
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Peter Amos 
  To: public-list at alberg30.org 
  Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 7:24 AM
  Subject: [Alberg30] Dutchman reefing and electric fuel pumps.


  At present I have the option of roller furling or jiffy reefing on the mainsail.Both of these systems need me at the mast when I want to reef ,often holding on and muttering words like "trawler"when conditions are bouncy.Also I can rarely raise the main without it snagging under the lower shrouds or jiffy lines unless I motor into the wind on autopilot,which seems like cheating somehow, and in tight conditions,like the I.C.W. is often not possible.
  I wondered if a Dutchman reefing system would be a better option for a singlehander of mature years and if it can be operated from the cockpit.Has anyone fitted  this system on an Alberg30 or had first hand knowledge of it on any boat?

  I have just read the "Tip of the Month" in the Mainsheet on the Atomic 4 fuel pump.I did this conversion several years ago when I had a Tartan 27 with an A4..The electric pump I used was a Facit from NAPA that cost about $50 then.It was a fairly simple changeover,it had to be for me to do it,and worked perfectly taking me from South Florida to Hampton,Virginia and back without faltering once although I read somewhere,long after I had sold the Tartan,that these pumps had a problem.
  Peter Amos
  Tait Tait #478

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