[Public-list] Measured mast/boom length, Alberg 30 Quiz

[Mike Lehman]

Damn George - you beat me to the answer, and I didn't have the benefit of 
seeing the picture!

Mike Lehman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Dinwiddie" <gdinwiddie at alberg30.org>
To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at alberg30.org>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Public-list] Measured mast/boom length, Alberg 30 Quiz


> 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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