[Public-list] Atomic four intake seacock location

Sat Apr 28 19:14:35 PDT 2007

Roger,

Don't think small - if you are going with a carbon fiber mast on an A30, why 
have rigging? Get rid of the stays and the boom. Go loose-footed main and 
electric genoa winches. Why should we work on the weekends, when we put in 
70 hours a week at our jobs?

Mike Lehman
~~~_/)_/)~~_/)~~~

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From: "Roger L. Kingsland" <r.kingsland at ksba.com>
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Subject: Re: [Public-list] Atomic four intake seacock location
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:43:13 -0400

Rachel,

I agree with Gord.  Cast iron is for wood stoves, not boats.  I have a new
scheme for a bolt on wing keel made out of heavy metal; a little radioactive
but, talk about heavy, it's even in the name.  I figure I can chop out
enough of the original cast iron keel to accommodate a hot tub under the
cabin sole.

Relative to the "totem pole" mast, what I had in mind was carbon fiber,
lot's of it; mast, stays, sails (rudder, tiller, frying pans).  Perhaps an
Aero Rig with a rotating, carbon fiber mast plunging through the center of
the main cabin.  If I attach a round table about 30" above the cabin sole, I
could have a lazy susan and the crew could eat each other's lunch on every
tack.

Thank goodness everything on my boat is broken; otherwise "the page" might
require I sail a design built when I was 15 (from what I recall, a very good
year, but not exactly yesterday).  I just hope none of the "if it aint
broke, don't fix it" crowd are airline pilots.

Roger Kingsland,
Rubber, scraper, chief check writer
"PERFECT intentions"
A30 #148

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:public-list-bounces at lists.alberg30.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Laco
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Subject: Re: [Public-list] Atomic four intake seacock location

Hey Rachel - I'll take the heat off you by resuming my complaining about the
A30's ballast ratios and that damned totem pole mast...

;) Gord #426

 >
 >  easy folks... get them hackles back down...
 >  Rachel wrote:
 >
 > What I don't get is the ire.  I mean, I thought I made it clear why I
 > was *thinking* about moving the through-hull.  And I certainly respect
 > the basic design of the boat.  However, after seeing -- for example --
 > the way the bilge was constructed at Whitby, I have no illusions that
 > the boat was constructed in the best possible way at all times, and I
 > believe that certain things can be improved.  What I don't like are
 > ill-conceived, poorly executed "improvements" that weren't thought
 > through in the first place.  I'm putting a lot of effort into NOT
 > doing that, but posting about it here can be rather discouraging.
 >
 > If replacing a 40-year old gate valve that was on a "through hull"
 > that consisted of a piece of pipe peened over a washer makes me a "NEO
 > Marine Architect" then so be it.
 >
 > Rachel
 > 1967 Alberg 30, #221
 > Possibly interested in selling - contact me offline if you are
 > interested.  Boat is located in lower Chesapeake Bay.
 >
 > On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:10 PM, C.B. Currier wrote:
 >
 >
 >
 > I don't get it!
 >
 > Why move anything in the first place? ..... As for the other through
 > hulls ... these boats have been around for 40 plus years ... why is it
 > we have all of these NEO Marine Architects that want to REDESIGN the
 > boat? It Aint Broke so don't fix it!

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