[Public-List] Fractional rigs

[John Birch]

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>
To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Public-List] Fractional rigs


>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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