[Public-List] Bend in the hull

[Gordon Laco]

Hello Stephen - 

SURPRISE has that sort of thing too...and in the same places.

I think I said a few years ago  "Alberg 30's were well built, but not so
finely built".

The wows in the hull are caused by the fixing of bulkheads and partitions
internally.  A characteristic of a solid glass hull is great flexability.
The wows were probably built into our boats when the bulkheads and later the
decks were pressed and pulled into place.

So the short answer is don't worry about them.

Cheers - Gord (who's chipper because he's just about to go for an evening
sail...)




On 11/10/11 5:02 PM, "Stephen Gwyn" <gwyn at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed that my hull has a slight concavity in the topsides,
> just below the forward lower shrouds. I've put two pictures up
> at: 
> http://astrowww.phys.uvic.ca/~gwyn/pers/sailing/bend/index1.html
> (and yes the cove stripe needs repainting) I'm assuming it's due
> to the forward lowers pulling up on the fibre glass knee.  I
> think I can just barely see the same on the pictures recently
> posted by George Mathis at:
> http://alberg-boats.com/A30/439/09242011HomePort.jpg
> 
> Over 37 years, it's deflected by a 1/4 inch, so I'm only slightly
> worried.
> 
> Should I worry more?
> Has anybody else noticed the same thing?
> Should I do anything about it?
> 
> SG
> 
> 
> 
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