[Alberg30] More Drastic Changes

[R C Alley]

Roger L. Kingsland wrote:

>Gord,
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>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
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>----- 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
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>>Well,
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>>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
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>stuff
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>>(sounds like a ton or more by "pounds per inch immersion" numbers in
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>Skene)
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>>- you have effectively improved the ballast/displacement ratio already.
>>
>>Gord
>>#426 Surprise
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>>on 9/30/03 12:13 PM, lfinkenberg at lfinkenberg at nyc.rr.com wrote:
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>>>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
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>gaining
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>>>some weight, inviting heavier friends out, storing 100s of feet of
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>anchor
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>>>chain and more beer onboard - where does one get ballast.
>>>
>>>Gypsy when I bought her from my sister was called Shante Gypsy
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>(pronounced
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>>>Shawn-tay)- but when I sailed with her we called her (Shan tee - b/c of
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>all
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>>>the stuff on board) - in renaming I simply scrapped off Shante. I think
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>the
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>>>original owner called her Gypsy but not sure.
>>>
>>>Linc, Oyster Bay.
>>>Gypsy 138
>>>
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The mind boggles--but, as long as drastic modifications are being 
contemplated:  two thirds of the Chesapeake are inacessible to the 
Alberg in any size or rigging configuration.  We all need a retractable 
centerboard in lieu of encapsulated ballast.  An hour with a chain saw 
ought to begin the project!!!

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