[Alberg30] More Drastic Changes

[Mike Lehman]

Roger,

Why did you buy an Alberg 30?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roger L. Kingsland 
  To: Alberg 30 public list 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 7:54 PM
  Subject: [Alberg30] More Drastic Changes


  Gord,

  How about this for a drastic modification; remove the keel mounted rudder
  and replace it with a transom mounted spade rudder that looks something like
  a bigger version of Cape Horn self steering.  I don't have the faintest idea
  what it would do to the balance but the sucker would turn on a dime (maybe a
  small quarter).

  Roger


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Gordon LACO" <mainstay at csolve.net>
  To: "lfinkenberg at nyc.rr.com, Alberg 30 public list"
  <public-list at alberg30.org>
  Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:17 PM
  Subject: Re: [Alberg30] Any Genoas? Any ballast


  > Well,
  >
  > Some of you may remember me complaining about my boat being tender - and
  > then being ashamed at being surprised at what a colossal change the new
  > genoa made.... well in my "she's too tender" days I did a pile of research
  > on the ballast issue.   As my boat has a liner there is not much room down
  > there for the lead pigs I would have bought from Mars Metal (on the web).
  > They would have cast them into flat sections that I could pack in but I
  > figured that I could only get a few hundred pounds down there - not enough
  > to be worth while.
  >
  > I also daydreamed about cutting off the encapsulated ballast, fitting a
  > keelson and fitting a smaller (same mass) lead ballast keel with deadwoods
  > like a wooden boat - that would have made a dramatic improvement in the
  > boat's performance, but what a heck of a lot of work.
  >
  > There is a long speach... if you have lightened your boat by removing
  stuff
  > (sounds like a ton or more by "pounds per inch immersion" numbers in
  Skene)
  > - you have effectively improved the ballast/displacement ratio already.
  >
  > Gord
  > #426 Surprise
  >
  >
  >
  >
  > on 9/30/03 12:13 PM, lfinkenberg at lfinkenberg at nyc.rr.com wrote:
  >
  > > Does anyone have a genoa I can purchase?
  > >
  > > Any ideas for ballast - over the years I've taken so much crap off Gypsy
  > > that she floats probably 3 or 4 inches above the waterline.  Besides
  gaining
  > > some weight, inviting heavier friends out, storing 100s of feet of
  anchor
  > > chain and more beer onboard - where does one get ballast.
  > >
  > > Gypsy when I bought her from my sister was called Shante Gypsy
  (pronounced
  > > Shawn-tay)- but when I sailed with her we called her (Shan tee - b/c of
  all
  > > the stuff on board) - in renaming I simply scrapped off Shante. I think
  the
  > > original owner called her Gypsy but not sure.
  > >
  > > Linc, Oyster Bay.
  > > Gypsy 138
  > >
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