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    Posted: 27 Sep 10 at 11:40am
A couple of thoughts...

A neat trick I was shown to reduce vertical loads on the gooseneck is to run the cunningham round the boom. I have a block each side of the tack and run the cunningham up to one block, down round the boom on a extra slippery "track" made of graphite/epoxy mix, back to the block the other side and down to a hook on the mast. That means that the cunningham is pulling the boom up. I haven't broken a gooseneck since I started doing this.

On 29ers and the like the mainsail leach/kicker tension helps supports the masthead. If the main is dumped as far as the shroud and kicker tension is reduced too much then the support of the topmast reduces very considerably...

Rotten 'ell wasn't that a chilly northerly!

Edited by JimC - 27 Sep 10 at 11:45am
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I was out this weekend! :D 30 knots of breeze in an Elan 333. It was awesome, we managed to set the spinnaker but then the crap shackle on the end of the sheet unsnapped itself and we had to get it down :/
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Was sailing the B14- which does have uppers to the spin hoist- but yes, the main does hold the masthead back quite a lot. We messed up, and paid the price. If the main had been eased rather than slipping out of helm's hand, it would have helped a lot!
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Posts: 2899 		Post Options Post Options   Quote alstorer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 Oct 10 at 10:27am
With the mast being at Synthesize and me off to 6fest, wasn't out this weekend. Hopefully the stick will be ready and sorted for Hayling this weekend- bring on the tide Ride!
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I haven't been out since Sheppy and am going stir crazy.

And I haven't fixed the Alto yet.

How do you get a carbon boom for a boat previously without one, specification wise I mean, do you order tube by length?
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can't P&B help?  they're pretty handy with most things.....
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I understand that the Alto has been tried with a carbon boom/kicker set-up, so there should be one kicking about somewhere.
 
[Off--topic: being pretty used to the L3k's 79kg hull which two of us can manage, and having helped turn an Alto hull over yesterday with four other people who were 'largish', I'm very sceptical about the Alto's 85kg hull weight claim...]
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Originally posted by alstorer

With the mast being at Synthesize and me off to 6fest, wasn't out this weekend. !

Hope you enjoyed it - I was one of the organisers ...
 


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Went down the club today to tinker and perhaps sail. Sailing out of the question as the sea was "Hastings Pier Soup". Small bits and big bits littered the whole Bay.......no sailing while that stuffs around Unhappy 
 
A complete shame about the Pier, it was (or under it was) the only form of sex education available in the 70's.
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Got some sort of fluey hacky cough lurgy kept me up all night, but it was such a nice day, sunny warm and freshening breeze, kind of summers last blast, so went out anyway. Capsized straight after the launch managed to right it without being spat back up the beach, then hung around for seemingly eons whilst the race box flapped about with start sequences that simply petered out. The course was too tight for the kite, so pretty much brought up the rear until the run, then having launched it, the wind dropped only to return mid gybe with a massive gust which set me on a course of further capsizes ending up in an unusual mast close encounter with the bottom, decided it was me not being 100% on par and retired with another capsize ten foot from the beach as I was coming ashore - nightmare.

It was a bit breezy and wavey but nothing horrendous, in fact could be argued perfect sailing conditions am now feeling even rougher and more depressed at being useless in that boat and to rub more salt in the wound got lapped by my Blaze, cheeker fecker sailed right over my rig as I was trying to right the boat.

No doubt I'll get over it, but right now I feel like chucking the whole single handed thing in.
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