[Public-List] Early style mainsheet traveler question

Sun Nov 3 06:43:47 PST 2013

If you are retro fitting to a new track, and its a Harken system you are 
putting on, Harken make a blind track that allows you to use the old bolt 
pattern so you don't have to drill new ones. It's really slick.

I bought many of the components in the used boat gear shops down in 
Annapolis the last time I was there, Harken end cars with built-in double 
turning blocks ($45 for the pair - 3:1 line purchase) and ball bearing 
traveler car ($45). I had to buy new the blind track and pay retail, but the 
cost of the retrofit was cut by several hundred dollars.

I made a teak shim to accommodate the deck camber and laid the track 
straight on the top side as track should be at least straight if not curved 
up at the ends (which would look like hell on an A-37).

The end result is a fabulous traveler system adjustable in any wind, up or 
down, and the cost well below buying everything new. And it looks great.

Just my experience anyway.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net>
To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Public-List] Early style mainsheet traveler question

> Cool - the wood under our track strips had rotted to something like cork,
> although I reckon it was teak or oak in it's younger days.
>
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> G
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> On 03/11/13 9:10 AM, "Amy & David Swanson" <zira at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> Gord -
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I re-did  the genoa tracks a while ago but noticed the mainsheet traveler
>> needs doing.  I found what appears to be the leftover teak strip I used
>> before but I was not sure whether the main sheet track was the same size 
>> (or
>> really even sure if this is the correct piece of leftover wood) & it is
>> almost a 3 hour drive to the boat from home.  I wrote down the length I
>> needed but did not right down the thickness & width.  It looks like this 
>> is
>> the correct piece so I will take it down next trip & try it out.
>>
>> David Swanson
>> Strayaway Child
>> Alberg 30 #228
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net>
>> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" 
>> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 7:17 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Early style mainsheet traveler question
>>
>>
>>> Hello friends,
>>>
>>> Its more important to make sure the width of the track plate and spacer
>>> beneath it fits the car you've got.  It should be a loose slip fit.
>>>
>>> Whitby used the strip of metal with oak beneath as a cost-saving
>>> construction technique (I didn't quite say 'short-cut')  There's not
>>> really
>>> anything wrong with making track this way, but it's a bit of a second
>>> choice
>>> way of making traveller or sheet track.
>>>
>>> Our #426 had it wherever a track exists... Main, genoa leads, gooseneck
>>> and
>>> spinnaker car...
>>>
>>>
>>> Gord #426 Surprise
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/11/13 6:29 PM, "Amy & David Swanson" <zira at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> CJ -
>>>>
>>>> Any idea how wide the wood shim is?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> David Swanson
>>>> Strayaway Child
>>>> Alberg_30_229
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "CJ Pool" <tasmanxer at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all"
>>>> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2013 5:49 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Early style mainsheet traveler question
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hello David,
>>>>>   I have a 1963 Alberg 30 with a mainsheet traveler as you described.
>>>>> The
>>>>> actual rail the traveller moves across measured 1&3/16" wide.  The 
>>>>> main
>>>>> part it is mounted on might be 1/2" wider overall.
>>>>>  -CJ Pool
>>>>>   Sloop Estuarine
>>>>>   Keehi Lagoon, Oahu
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Amy & David Swanson
>>>>> <zira at bellsouth.net>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If anyone is near their boat in the next few days and still has the 
>>>>>> old
>>>>>> style mainsheet traveler with the flat metal bar spaced off the deck
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> wood shim, can you please let me know how wide the metal bar is?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David Swanson
>>>>>> Strayaway Child
>>>>>> Alberg 30 #229
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