[Public-list] Bronze turnbuckles - Inspection

[Kristofer Coward]

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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