[Public-List] Fractional rigs

[Gordon Laco]

I considered doing it to SURPRISE when I was grappling with the issue  
of getting her tuned up and sailing better.

The Abbott 33 has a fractional rig that would fit an Alberg 30  
perfectly... and Abbott has several lovely tapered aluminium masts at  
their facility in Sarnia.

see http://www.abbottboats.com/a33.htm

With a tall fractional rig, an A30 would be much closer winded; faster  
in both light and heavy air, better balanced... and have the advantage  
of being able to carry a much fuller main for light air  which could  
be instantly transformed into a very flat main for heavy air by  
hauling on the backstay and bending the mast.

BUT...  the wouldn't be an Alberg 30 anymore; it would be a weird  
orphan - a better sailing one, but still an orphan.

That, and the cost of the transformation, weighed to convince me to  
lay the project aside.

There are stories in the Canadian marine business involving Alberg's  
intention to give the 30 a bendy fractional rig  with a tapered mast -  
very much like the Folkboat's, but Whitby Boatworks wanted to use the  
much cheaper heavy extrusion mast with the simple mast head we got.    
The stock Alberg 30 mast has been chided in the business as a "totem  
pole" for its weight and lack of taper...  but since the boat was a  
one-design it really didn't matter so much if the rig was inferior so  
long as all were the same.


On 26-Sep-09, at 2:38 PM, Peter Amos wrote:

>
> Can or should an Alberg 30,or in my case now a Pearson Vanguard, be  
> modified to a fractional rig.
> Pete  ex Tait Tait #478
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