[Public-list] Bronze turnbuckles - Inspection

[Mike Lehman]

Matchmaker is Ted Osius' old boat - hull #482. Ted raced the boat hard and 
won most of the time. The decks were badly delaminated and the owner after 
Ted covered over them with teak. Ted didn't do much maitenance, and on one 
race he pulled the chainplate through the deck [the rig never failed]. Bruce 
Rankin fixed the chainplates and adjusted the rigging. Bruce told me that 
the mast was 4" off center at the top [the whole mast was leaning]. After 
Bruce made the repairs and adjustments, Ted claimed that he could never win 
another race because the boat was slow with the mast in column. I guess it 
is what you are used to, even if it isn't right?



              Mike Lehman
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----Original Message Follows----
From: Willard Blevins Jr <billblevins at mac.com>
Reply-To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all <public-list at alberg30.org>
To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all <public-list at alberg30.org>
Subject: Re: [Public-list] Bronze turnbuckles - Inspection
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:22:08 -0400

Matchmaker (not a member so I don't know the hull number) lost her rig due 
to problems she had during a strong storm in the Bay near the Rappahannock 
River last November 2003.

http://mysailingphotos.com/Members/Sabrina/images/matchmaker/view

Bill Blevins
Sabrina #158

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On Tuesday, October 19, 2004, at 09:53PM, Kristofer Coward <kris at melon.org> 
wrote:

 >On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:38:47PM -0400, Mike Lehman wrote:
 >> I have to comment on this. I have never know of an Alberg that has lost 
the
 >> rig due to a rigging failure. The failures that I know about are:
 >>
 >> 527 - failed spreader
 >> 411 - collision [with another boat]
 >> 135 - Bridge collision [Chesapeake Bay Bridge]
 >>  35 - Bridge collision (Intracoastal Waterway]
 >> 399 - forward lower knee failure [60 knot winds and a pitch pole]
 >> 464 - collision [with another A30]
 >>
 >> How many more are there? What were the causes? The boats are getting 
older
 >
 >583 - collision [with another boat] (or so I've been told -- you hear
 >all sorts of interesting things when you buy a boat that's been in your
 >club longer than you've been alive, or in your class association since
 >before you started puberty).
 >
 >Kris Coward
 >#583 Candy Cane
 >
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