[Public-List] Continued Fitment questions on Boom Vang choice

Thu Nov 3 08:38:29 PDT 2016

I am happy to stay old school with Gord. I just like my sliding gooseneck,
even though I have to kick it to make it slide!

Mike
#272

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Wes Gardner via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> I think many think that a sliding gooseneck is "old Skool" and that a
> cunningham and flattening reef offer/better more shaping???
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:
>
> > I know people pound the table spilling each other's beer about fixed vs
> > sliding goosenecks... I like mine to move on it's track.  Why?  I just
> do,
> > that's why.
> >
> > I don't think rigid vangs require fixed goosenecks.  Nor should they
> impose
> > higher loads than tackles...
> >
> > Gord #426 Surprise
> >
> > PS  Pim of WINDWARD and I are just back from the 2016 Misery Trip.  This
> > year's expedition, although later in the season, was a sore
> disappointment
> > in that there was no misery.  We romped SURPRISE north out of Severn
> Sound
> > running and broad reaching touching seven knots on occasion getting to
> our
> > anchorage at Bone Island way too soon. We lounged and lay about all
> > afternoon, had a good supper out in the cockpit under lights hung from
> the
> > boom, admired the stars, slept in comfort, woke up in a not particularly
> > chilly cabin, ate a hearty breakfast of scrambled eggs and sausage...
> Then
> > motored home in an incredible glassy calm in warm air.  Damn.  No misery.
> >
> > I was thinking we'd have to go again in order to find the suffering we
> were
> > looking for, but my wife preempted that by volunteering to help me strip
> > down the rig in preparation for haul out Saturday.  So now it's too late,
> > we
> > can't go again.
> >
> >
> > On 2016-11-03, 9:39 AM, "Wes Gardner via Public-List"
> > <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Oh, the hard vangs MAY require a fixed point goose neck???  Mine is
> still
> > > on a track.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Wes Gardner <wesgardner1952 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Here's mine...just a simple arrangement of blocks led back to the
> > >> cockpit.  In fact it is was cobbled together by a PO use a mast bail
> > and a
> > >> boom bail.  It's the white line, the blue one is the tack line for the
> > asym.
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Don Campbell via Public-List <
> > >> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Bill:
> > >>>    I know of two Alberg 30's that have Garhauer vangs. Both are in
> the
> > >>> Canadian race fleet and the one is still in the box because the first
> > one
> > >>> went on and tore the track off the mast that held the boom. Garhauer
> > made a
> > >>> bracket for the boom fitting so that that boom now does not move on
> the
> > >>> mast. As far as I know, Phil really likes his set up and I will
> > eventually
> > >>> get around to replacing the cloth vang I have, with the one in the
> box,
> > >>> once I figure out where to put the boom on the mast.  If you do get a
> > >>> Garhauer, make sure you get the mast bracket too. They are a small
> > enough
> > >>> company that they should be able to make the same one that was made
> for
> > >>> Gemini, # 362 and that was for the stock mast.
> > >>> Don
> > >>>
> > >>> -----Original Message----- From: Bill McCoy via Public-List
> > >>> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2016 7:08 AM
> > >>> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
> > >>> Subject: [Public-List] Continued Fitment questions on Boom Vang
> choice
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> So Hull 614 is back in the water.  This time in South Carolina.
> Photo
> > at
> > >>> link:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> [IMG]http://i1358.photobucket.com/albums/q763/Skeep575/DSC_0
> > >>> 479_zpsy8voe1sf.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Update discussion threads on Boom Vangs.  I've read the old posts
> about
> > >>> these.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Questions for the hearty:  1) For the Alberg, is there a consensus on
> > >>> type vang, blocks or rigid styles?  I'm referring to any sort of
> setup.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> 2) Garhauer was mentioned as supplying for Albergs specifically.  Is
> > this
> > >>> still the case that they are tuned-in to our design for boom vang
> > fitment?
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks all,
> > >>>
> > >>> skeep
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Bill
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