[Alberg30] Ginny Pole

[Mike Lehman]

Forespar makes the part you will need to build your own spinnaker pole. I 
built one several years ago when I broke mine in a race. The mistake I made 
was to buy the more expensive pole ends with the trigger mechanisms. It was 
a PITA, the crew could never get the triggers to release when they needed 
them to. I ended up disassembling the ends and removing the triggers to make 
them manual operateded with the trip wires. Just a short piece of adive from 
someone who has wasted money needlessly in the past.



Mike Lehman
"Gilleleje" #505





----Original Message Follows----
From: J Bergquist <j at ship.saic.com>
Reply-To: Alberg 30 public list <public-list at alberg30.org>
To: Alberg 30 public list <public-list at alberg30.org>
Subject: Re: [Alberg30] Ginny Pole
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:48:54 -0500

George, it is a spinnaker pole to which I am referring.

Christos, I have not yet made the parts list, but when I build the pole, I 
will definitely send it to you. I think I will give it to myself for 
christmas. But for a whisker pole, you will probably want something 
different that my parts list will describe...

J

greeksailor at att.net wrote:

>George, it is a whisker pole I'm pertaining to.......
>
>J, that makes perfect sense! Thank you very much, will keep the length per 
>class rules because I am up against 497 and I dont want him to say I'm 
>cheating when he will be reading the name of 383 all day long....ouch
>
>Have you created a parts list for the construction of the pole?
>
>Christos
>
>>Christos-
>>
>>I have been trying to buy a pole from Bacons for about 6 months now. I 
>>finally decided that it would be cheaper, easier, and better to just build 
>>one from scratch myself. I always found that the poles at Bacon's were 
>>around $200, which is about the same as material cost for a new pole (got 
>>my prices from Fawcett's - aka. Tiffany's-on-the-Bay). The poles I found 
>>at Bacon's were never exactly the right length, or the fittings didn't 
>>work well, or they had old rivets, or there was inevitably some 
>>undesirability...
>>
>>The length of the pole is in the rules, but if memory serves me correctly, 
>>it should be no more than 10'6".
>>
>>J Bergquist
>>Calliope #287
>>
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