[Public-list] Alberg 30 Quiz

Michael Connolly crufone at sbcglobal.net
Mon Nov 1 20:59:54 PST 2004


George and Mike,
Guess that it is pretty hard to stump either of you two.  I am curious, were these devices commercially available during the time our boats were newer or did owners have to custom make something like this to attach a vang?  
First thing I noticed about my boat is no vang.  I have boom roller furling, which is nice and convenient, I suppose.  Always wondered how to attach vang and still be able to furl.
 
What would keep the device in place on the boom?  Friction?  Would that not mess up the furled sailcloth?  Perhaps something is missing.
Michael

George Dinwiddie <gdinwiddie at alberg30.org> wrote:
Michael & Dan,

Not only are there two Albergs in the middle of Indiana, but their 
skippers both traveled to Annapolis to race on the same A30 on 
consecutive weekends.

The list is set to strip binary attachments, to prevent distributing 
viruses, so I've posted your photo at 
http://www.alberg30.org/maintenance/disorganized/RollerReefingVangAttachment.jpg

Recall that these boats originally used roller reefing rather than slab 
reefing. That means that you can't have hardware attached to the boom. 
In order to put a vang on the boom, you slid one of these contraptions 
down the boom with the sail in the slot between the "rollers." Then you 
could wind the main up on the boom within the circle.

- George

Michael Connolly wrote:
> Hello, Last Saturday I spent a delightful day meeting Dan Walker -
> #145 Rascal and looking at each others boats. It is still amazing to
> me that here are two Alberg 30's within 18 miles of each other in
> land-locked central Indiana!! If stories counted ................we
> must have sailed a thousand miles that day..........very pleasant.
> 
> Dan helped me measure my mast and boom. These dimensions are for the
> aluminum extrusions only; mast 34' 9-1/4" boom 14' 3".
> 
> Now for the Quiz. When anyone these days purchases an Alberg 30 the
> new owner always gets a box of "mystery stuff". Sometimes the seller
> is forthright and tells you where it is and sometimes it is a
> surprise 'find' discovered months after you get the boat home. In
> Dan's "mystery stuff" box were many items most of which we could
> identify.
> 
> One item stumped us. Attached is a pict. This is a very nicely hand
> made 'Gadget'. The white u-shaped section is a sandwich of two
> aluminum plates and epoxy resin, then wrapped with white vinyl tape.
> The rollers are of the polyurethane non-marking type, spaced about
> 3/4" apart and do not rotate. A shackle is attached at the apex of
> the u-shape.
> 
> All suggestions of what this might be are welcome. Please keep your
> responses clean as our children read this list.
> 
> Michael #133 Lorrie Rose
> 
> 
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