[Public-List] Fractional rigs

[Gordon Laco]

Well you will laugh John...

I was day dreaming about the feasibility of cutting the ballast off,  
having a lead keel designed and cast complete with a deadwood to make  
up the volume due to the lead being denser and smaller in volume for  
the same weight.

Why all this radical thinking?   When I got SURPRISE she had a 40 year  
old main and a totally blown out 170 on the furler.  She was over on  
her ear in 10 knots of wind and my old War of 1812 schooner went to  
weather better.    What a difference a tuned rig and a new suit of  
sails made!!!

Gord
426 Surprise




On 26-Sep-09, at 5:48 PM, John Birch wrote:

> If one is going to break from the one design, go whole hog and go  
> carbon fiber ; )
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net>
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> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 2:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Fractional rigs
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>
>> 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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