[Public-List] Knockdown in an Alberg 30

[dave bogdas]

Note that Gelinas had replaced the original rig.
 
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> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:29:33 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Knockdown in an Alberg 30
> 
> 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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