[Public-List] Question about toe rail on old model of Alberg 30

[Mike Lehman]

Lee

How good are you woodworking skills? This is not an easy task. The toe rail 
on the older boats is a odd shape and every angle is different...then there 
is the scarf joint. Where are you located?

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Subject: [Public-List] Question about toe rail on old model of Alberg 30

Hello my Alberg 30 friends :)

Has anyone replaced the forward section of toe rail on an old model of
Alberg 30?

Stargazer, a 1967 A30, got hit while she was on her mooring during  Irene,
and the forward section of the port toe rail was broken in several places
along about 8 feet of the forward section. The entire forward section up to
the first scarf has to be replaced.

Her toerail was always 'marginal' :) and could have stood replacement
earlier, but it was a job I dreaded and put off as long as I could. Now I 
have
no choice, at least for this forward section.

Does the teak have to be steamed to make the bend without breaking at the
fastening holes? Are there other techniques, procedures.......tricks, to
bend the piece into shape?

Are there different grades of teak that I have to ask for when I'm calling
around looking for the wood?

Trying to measure the exact replacement thickness of 44 year old teak that
has been left bare and has shrunk with time is not as easy as I thought it
would  be. If anyone has replaced this piece, do you remember what
dimensions of height  and thickness you used to get the wood?

Stargazer got pretty banged up. Besides the broken toe rail, her bow pulpit
was bent, port stantions bent, her SS rubrail was peeled back from bow to
chainplates and bent like a corkscrew, and the topsides were scratched and
gouged through the gelcoat. The force of the impact broke the port v  berth
shelf away from the hull, though it looks like the hull just flexed, and
didn't fracture.

The aft end of the masthead windex broke off!!

The impact broke Stargazer's mushroom out, and she started dragging. After
about 600 feet, fortunately it caught on something BIG, and she stopped.
Where  she hung up, at the extremes of her swings her stern was about 7 feet
from  the topsides of a huge wooden sportfisherman that was in a slip. If 
she
hadn't  caught onto whatever it was on the bottom, the damage would have
been much,  much, worse.

But...............'you should have seen the other guy..'  I don't know  who
it was that initially hit Stargazer, but he left chunks of plastic rubrail
and a couple of small pieces of full thickness fiberglass laminate on
Stargazer's deck. One was actually jammed into the hull to deck seam where 
the
ss rubrail was peeled back!

All in all, we got off lucky. Other boats lost their rigs, went up on the
rocks, or sank.

As always, any and all advice greatly appreciated.

Also, is a match for the ss rubrail available anywhere anymore?

Lee
Stargazer #255
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