[Public-List] topping lifts

[Mike Lehman via Public-List]

Jonathan,  you should take your sail off the boat and measure the luff. The
measurements are in the handbook.

On Sep 25, 2017 9:38 PM, "Alberg30 Association Secretary via Public-List" <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> When raising the main to max hoist, which raised the gooseneck on its track
> to the highest position, I found that i could raise the main far enough
> that the topmost slide popped off the top end of the track. Removed a flat
> head screw from the gooseneck track and replaced it with a bolt to prevent
> the gooseneck from rising far enough to allow the topmost slide to pop off
> the track.
>
> Perhaps the luff of my main has been stretched?  Don't know.  Since placing
> that bolt the problem has gone away.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 6:09 PM Mike Meinhold via Public-List <
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>
> > If your topping lift must be on to prevent the boom from hitting the
> > dodger, you are suffering from very poor main trim.  I suggest you try an
> > experiment - take the dodger down and take the topping lift off, and try
> > sailing upwind. I am sure you will see the difference.  Tjhe mainsheet
> must
> > be allowed to change the tension in the leech, and the topping lift
> > prevents this.  That said, you can use a topping lift to open the leech
> if
> > needed.
> >
> > The solution may be as simple as raising the main at the mast as high as
> > possbile.  Make sure there is no downhaul limiting the hieight of the
> > gooseneck, and make sure the gooseneck is free to go up in the track..
> >
> > Mike
> > Rinn Duin #272
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:53 PM, James Cowhey via Public-List <
> > public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> >
> > > That had been my experience except with wire lifts not braided line.
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > > > On Sep 25, 2017, at 4:52 PM, gordon white via Public-List <
> > > public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >    O.K., I'm going to reveal my ignorance here. I have been sailing
> > > since 1942, not only on my boats, but with a number of other sailors on
> > > other boats, but I have never seen a topping lift un-hooked from the
> boom
> > > while sailing.  Now I once had a gaff-rigged schooner that had no
> topping
> > > lifts, but on marconi-rigged sloops the topping lift has always
> remained
> > in
> > > place.
> > > >
> > > >    It keeps the boom from hitting my dodger (or my head) when coming
> > > about and has other uses, mostly involving safety. Attempting to
> release
> > > and re-attach a lift even in a near-calm, strikes me as hazardous. I
> > have a
> > > woven dacron topping lift that does not seem to hazard the roach of the
> > > main.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >    Have I been sadly in error these 75 years??
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Gordon White
> > > >
> > > > Brigadoon II
> > > >
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