[Public-List] Clever, but perhaps not so clever...

Sun Dec 18 12:54:06 PST 2022

Thank you DCM…  could you tell me if your boat is a pre or apres 400 one?

G

Gordon Laco
www.gordonlaco.com
705-527-9612

> On Dec 18, 2022, at 11:39 AM, dcmcrider <dcmcrider at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dodger dimensions:
> 
> 17" from companionway hatch to underside of foreward arch
> 
> 48" from bridge deck to top of aft arch
> 
> 66" from cockpit sole to top of aft arch
> 
> The captain is 6'-10" tall, and that puts the dodger square at my eye height. 
> 
> No issues with the boom clearing this dodger under sail. With the sail stowed the topping lift keeps the boom off the dodger.
> 
> 
> 
> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S9, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable smartphone
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net>
> Date: 12/14/22 20:31 (GMT-05:00)
> To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> Cc: dcmcrider <dcmcrider at gmail.com>, Mike Meinhold <meinhold272 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Clever, but perhaps not so clever...
> 
> Thanks, friends.
> 
> 
> 
> Gordon Laco
> www.gordonlaco.com <http://www.gordonlaco.com/>
> 705-527-9612
> 
> 
> 
>> On Dec 14, 2022, at 8:26 PM, Mike Meinhold via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org <mailto:public-list at lists.alberg30.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Me too Paul. !
>> 
>> See you out the there this winter!
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 19:58 dcmcrider <dcmcrider at gmail.com <mailto:dcmcrider at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Gord,
>>> 
>>> I can do likewise at the weekend. Boat is in her slip, dodger still up. I
>>> have fantasies about squeezing in one sail over the holidays, if the wx
>>> cooperates.
>>> 
>>> Paul / Slainte #129
>>> Annapolis
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S9, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable smartphone
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -------- Original message --------
>>> From: Mike Meinhold via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org <mailto:public-list at lists.alberg30.org>>
>>> Date: 12/14/22 18:16 (GMT-05:00)
>>> To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all <public-list at lists.alberg30.org <mailto:public-list at lists.alberg30.org>>
>>> Cc: Mike Meinhold <meinhold272 at gmail.com <mailto:meinhold272 at gmail.com>>
>>> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Clever, but perhaps not so clever...
>>> 
>>> Gord
>>> 
>>> I can go out soon and measure. I have Mike Lehman’s old dodger.  Rinn Duin
>>> is still on the mooring
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 18:12 Gordon Laco via Public-List <
>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org <mailto:public-list at lists.alberg30.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> NO!
>>>> 
>>>> There will be no full cockpit enclosure (aka ‘oxygen tent’)  And there
>>>> will be no cockpit cushions.  A man must draw the line somewhere…
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Gordon Laco
>>>> www.gordonlaco.com <http://www.gordonlaco.com/>
>>>> 705-527-9612
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Dec 14, 2022, at 5:58 PM, Rod Symmes via Public-List <
>>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Oh my...........  next Gord will be installing an oxygen tent !
>>>>> and then it will be pressurized hot water.
>>>>> What is the world coming to?
>>>>> 
>>>>> On the other hand ......... if you are forgetting where you wrote it
>>>> down,  maybe it is time you put some shade over your head.  (-:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Rod
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my Galaxy
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -------- Original message --------
>>>>> From: Gordon Laco via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
>>>>> Date: 2022-12-14 5:33 p.m. (GMT-05:00)
>>>>> To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all <
>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org <mailto:public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cc: Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net>
>>>>> Subject: [Public-List] Clever, but perhaps not so clever...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello shipmates,
>>>>> 
>>>>> So there I was, deciding at last to order myself a dodger for SURPRISE.
>>>> Once upon a time I despised fibreglass boats (but now I have one) I
>>>> despised aluminium masts (but now I have one) I despised standing
>>> headroom
>>>> down below (and now I have it) and I especially despised inboard engines,
>>>> roller furling headsails and wheel steering (and now I have and enjoy all
>>>> of them).
>>>>> 
>>>>> I’m ordering my dodger from Nat Genco… whose family made making dodgers
>>>> and other canvass work for Whitby Boatworks products since both Whitby
>>> Boat
>>>> Works and Genco Marine started at about the same time.  They know Alberg
>>> 30
>>>> like nobody else.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I knew that Nat would need to know the comfortable height of my boom
>>>> above the companionway in order to most correctly determine the height of
>>>> my dodger… and oh wasn’t I chuckling to myself a month ago about how
>>> clever
>>>> I am when I remembered to measure that height before I was asked for it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I did measure it… but what did I do with the results of that
>>>> measurement?  I do recall writing it down on something…
>>>>> 
>>>>> So, would any of you southern American brethren who still have their
>>>> rigs up care to do me the great favour of sending me the measurement
>>>> between the top of the closed companionway slider, and the underside of
>>>> their boom, and maybe a picture of their boat broadside so I can reckon
>>> how
>>>> close your boom at rest is to mine?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Gord
>>>>> Surprise 426
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Gordon Laco
>>>>> www.gordonlaco.com<http://www.gordonlaco.com>
>>>>> 705-527-9612
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> These businesses support your Association:
>>>>> http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html
>>>>> Please support them.
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Public-List mailing list
>>>>> Public-List at lists.alberg30.org
>>>>> http://lists.alberg30.org/listinfo.cgi/public-list-alberg30.org
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> These businesses support your Association:
>>>>> http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html
>>>>> Please support them.
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Public-List mailing list
>>>>> Public-List at lists.alberg30.org
>>>>> http://lists.alberg30.org/listinfo.cgi/public-list-alberg30.org
>>>> 
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> These businesses support your Association:
>>>> http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html
>>>> Please support them.
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Public-List mailing list
>>>> Public-List at lists.alberg30.org
>>>> http://lists.alberg30.org/listinfo.cgi/public-list-alberg30.org
>>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> These businesses support your Association:
>>> http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html
>>> Please support them.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Public-List mailing list
>>> Public-List at lists.alberg30.org
>>> http://lists.alberg30.org/listinfo.cgi/public-list-alberg30.org
>>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> These businesses support your Association:
>> http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html <http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html>
>> Please support them.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Public-List mailing list
>> Public-List at lists.alberg30.org
>> http://lists.alberg30.org/listinfo.cgi/public-list-alberg30.org
> 