[Alberg30] hull flexing

[John Birch]

Your not pounding into headseas and confusing the shudder with hull flexing are you?
All hulls flex a little - are you noticing gelcoat cracks cracking externally along the hard points where the bulkheads or forebunks are?

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: chrishardy 
  To: Alberg 30 public list 
  Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 4:22 PM
  Subject: Re: [Alberg30] hull flexing


  ? Well my boat doesn't flex at all in a seaway at least that I can feel #296 , deck is thrubolted, rig tensioned the same (I used brians #'s too), new mast beam etc. maybe your deck is riveted and is loose.  I haven't noticed any movement I've had it rail down beating into a fairly heavy sea taking alot of water down the weather side deck over the bow and scooping up some in my 150% UK tape drive. Only vibration I felt was my heart going into high misfire and my white knuckles squeezing the pitch out of the teak tiller..

  Dave Terrell wrote:

    I do not think so. the rig is  tensioned fairly tightly. I used brian's suggested numbers from our discussion last spring.

    >>> chrishardy at tds.net 09/12/02 02:53PM >>>
    Are you sure you are not felling some slack in your rig? possibly the mast pumping a little?

    Dave Terrell wrote:

      You can feel it in the hull. I am not sure if vibration is the right word, but there is a kind of feeling, a sort of shuttering, maybe.

      >>> EddieDiver at aol.com 09/11/02 09:45PM >>>
      How does one tell that the hull is flexing? Can you see the inner walls of 
      the hull rippling? Do other boats sailing alongside tell you? Ed. Schroeder 
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