[Public-List] Sails, Jib & Spi halyard

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Our boat (#229) had all three original Murphy & Nye sails on it when we bought her.  I don't remember who made the spinnaker.

David Swanson
Strayaway Child
Alberg 30 #229

-------------- Original message from Don Campbell <dk.campbell at sympatico.ca>: -------------- 


> Michael; 
> It is my understanding that Kurt Hansen of Whitby Boat Works worked 
> with Tom Taylor Sails in Toronto to get the original sails onto Alberg 
> 30s but never made any attempt to do it themselves. The sailmaker at 
> Taylor's was Joe Fernandes, and he built the sails for those boats Kurt 
> sold with sails aboard including Jerry Keddy's Opus, hull #1. There were 
> some buyers who bought boats without factory delivered sails. 
> When Taylor's closed their business, Joe started up his own loft 
> and called it Triton. Sails. It seems to me that there was as much art 
> as theory in sails before computer designs took over and so older 
> sailmakers knew how a boat sailed and built sails accordingly. One would 
> like to think that the characters who build computer programmes for sail 
> design know how boats sail too, but that may be a stretch, (even in 
> dacron)! 
> Joe has been dead for about 6 years now, but Triton still carries on 
> under the ownership of his wife and son. Both work in the loft every 
> day. The seamstresses and many of the employees are still those 
> employed by Joe. Maggie Ross also worked for Taylor and she ultimately 
> was the Canadian sail loft for UK sails, so Taylor had several very good 
> sailmakers within their firm. 
> I have the original sails for hull #469 and they are Ratsey and 
> Lapthorne's from New York City, so there are a number of other 
> sailmakers who have built sails for Alberg 30's. Personally, I like 
> Triton's as well as any I have sailed with. I do know they have changed 
> construction techniques to accommodate the newer fabrics, newer design 
> principles and building methods, but there is some of the art still in 
> these sails because both Joe and Ron have sailed on Alberg 30s. 
> Don #528 
> 
> dickdurk at atlanticbb.net wrote: 
> > 
> >> TRITON Sails in Toronto, which is the original sailloft that made the 
> >> Alberg Sails 
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure Murphy & Nye built Checkmate's original sails. I 
> > imagine there is a whole lot of variation in how the factory handled 
> > sail construction. I also suspect there is a whole lot of smoke and 
> > mirrors in "branding" sails, especially since high tech fabrics are 
> > not allowed in class rules. 
> > 
> > MichaelGrosh 
> > #220 
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