[Public-List] Knockdown in an Alberg 30

[edward schroeder]

Gordo; it's good to read your stories and very good to know that water did not come into the cabin even when the spreader was/is in the water.
 
Ed Schroeder #303 "Emotional Rescue"

--- On Tue, 1/12/10, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:


From: Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net>
Subject: Re: [Public-List] Knockdown in an Alberg 30
To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 10:15 AM


We once put a spreader into the water while spinnaker reaching and pushing the boat too hard -

there was a gust (we were blasting along to leeward of the land) and we got laid down.  I eased the main but the boom was in the water before much pressure came off that sail.    I called cast off the spinnaker sheet but a kink jammed in the block... I then called to run the spinnaker guy in order to ease the pressure on that sail that way...it jerked out a foot or so then nothing more happened.  Thinking it had jammed too I yelled to my son Pete who was up at the mast to cast off the halyard.  From under the mainsail (we were way over by this time, dragging sideways with water foaming into the cockpit) I heard his calm voice call back "Uh, can't just now."   I learned later he was standing on the shrouds, which were horizontal and deep under water.    I looked behind me and saw our visiting friend Lynn holding tight to the spinnaker guy with all her strength.  I said 'that looks like it hurts, why don't you let go?"  She did, the spinnaker
 collapsed and the boat came back onto her feet.  All this took less time to happen than to tell, and was going on as we were crossing the finish line.

'Can't, just now' delivered in a deep slow voice during any sort of emergency is a family joke now.

I was interested to note that the companionway was out of the water even with a spreader immersed.

It's all good fun!

Gord #426 SUSPRISE



On 12-Jan-10, at 10:53 AM, crufone at comcast.net wrote:

> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Has anyone on-list suffered a complete knockdown (masthead in the water), not just a blow over, in an Alberg 30?  Perhaps our friend Robert Birk? who is currently circumnavigating can add something here.
> What happened? What broke and what didn't? If you would please recount your experience.
> 
> My sailing waters will be the Great Lakes. I assume that if I sail long enough I will at some point get knocked down and would like to know if the boat is capable of surviving a knockdown.
> 
> I have read with keen interest Yves Gelinas' recount of being rolled in the Southern Ocean. This extreme test lead us all to up-sizing our chain plate bolts. What about the mast beam, how does it fair during a knockdown?
> 
> Michael #133
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