[Public-list] Bronze turnbuckles - Inspection

[Don Campbell]

Kris:
    There are three lost of rigs that I know of in the Canadian fleet. I believe
Candy Cane  #583 lost her rig in a knock down in the Fujinon 300 with Peter Ashby
at the helm in the early 1990s. It was a particularly nasty storm that came
across the lake after dark about the Niagara River mouth and devastated many in
the fleet. John Birch can tell you more as he was in it and survived to finish
the race with his AL30, Wind Rose,  #544. The Fujinon was the original 300 mile
race around Lake Ontario, now known as the Lake Ontario 300. Wanderlove, KC 578
lost some of her rig on a south wind while tied to a wharf at Burlington B&SC
when two rigs tangled and locked up at their finger docks, (so always make sure
masts don't line up across the finger), and Jazz # 648 lost her rig in the last
race of the season last fall due to either a  spreader failure or too much
compression on the mast at the spreader and no compression fitting within the
mast. You can check that one further with John Kitchener.
    The two total failures were both in race boats,  under quite abnormal stress
in the first case and certainly stress in the second. I sometimes question how
tight the rigging needs to be before we get the stress too great and either force
the stick through the deck or collapse the carrying beam,  or lose the rig.
Don

Kristofer Coward 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
>
> --
> Kristofer Coward                                http://unripe.melon.org/
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