Re: Black Skimmer experience: alternate rig
OOPS, I goofed in quoting Bolger: looked it up in my archives last night:
the rig he recommended for easier mast-stepping on Black Skimmer was a
"Solent Lug", not a gunter -- see discussion on this rig in his "100 Small
Boat Rigs" book.
To quote from his letter to me Jan '91:
"...it seems to me, subject to more thought, that it would be possible to go
to a Solent lug rig, using the same sail and mast but with the mast
shortened quite a bit. About twenty feet of the upper end of the luff would
be set on a yard, slightly less than half of which would project above the
new masthead. The mast could be shortened about 9 1/2', to less than 22'
above the pivot. The luff below the foot of the yard would be free,
lug-style, but the yard would come down almost vertically and not lash
around as in the usual lugsail. There would be a little more weight aloft
but nothing prohibitive; reefed, both weight and windage would be lower.
The rake of the mast should be slightly reduced but this could be taken care
of at the step. Such a rig might be worth thinking about, but, I should
say, not until you've had some familiarisation with her as she is."
no sketches of the rig, sorry; the sketches were his ideas about a pivoting
tabernacle...
Regards,
Wayne Gilham
personal e-mail:wgilham@...
the rig he recommended for easier mast-stepping on Black Skimmer was a
"Solent Lug", not a gunter -- see discussion on this rig in his "100 Small
Boat Rigs" book.
To quote from his letter to me Jan '91:
"...it seems to me, subject to more thought, that it would be possible to go
to a Solent lug rig, using the same sail and mast but with the mast
shortened quite a bit. About twenty feet of the upper end of the luff would
be set on a yard, slightly less than half of which would project above the
new masthead. The mast could be shortened about 9 1/2', to less than 22'
above the pivot. The luff below the foot of the yard would be free,
lug-style, but the yard would come down almost vertically and not lash
around as in the usual lugsail. There would be a little more weight aloft
but nothing prohibitive; reefed, both weight and windage would be lower.
The rake of the mast should be slightly reduced but this could be taken care
of at the step. Such a rig might be worth thinking about, but, I should
say, not until you've had some familiarisation with her as she is."
no sketches of the rig, sorry; the sketches were his ideas about a pivoting
tabernacle...
Regards,
Wayne Gilham
personal e-mail:wgilham@...