[Alberg30] Any Genoas? Any ballast

[Gordon LACO]

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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