[Alberg30] More Drastic Changes

[Roger L. Kingsland]

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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