Red Zinger (was Re: new micro photos)
Peter, et al:
I was on-board the original Red Zinger just once when I bought her mast from
builder Dr Richard Zapf... now mind you, she was under winter-tarp up on a
trailer then, yet my distinct impression was that the interior was really
confining and kinda cut-up (think: "centerboard trunk"). Remember she's not
full standing headroom, yet the "furniture" doesn't seem well suited for
shuffling forward with but-on-bunks either. And those aft-berths go under
the cockpit for half their length... Also, the narrowed bottom (compared to
a Bolger Box or even his earlier flat-bottom, flared-side sharpies) doesn't
give much walking area... and then THAT narrow walking area is bisected by
the cenerboard trunk... Made me REALLY glad I owned a Black Skimmer, when I
got back to mine and started to install the Red Zinger mast.
Note that Red Zinger's mast-base is too long from the deck-level partners to
its heel, to allow fabrication of a true pivoting tabernacle -- heel will
strike the stem. With the further-forward stem plus greater stem-rake of a
Black Skimmer (and perhaps a slightly lower partners), I WAS able to devise
a tabernacle fabricated of steel, one-part rigidly-attached to deck, the
other part rigidly attached to mast, pivoting just a few inches above the
cabintop deck, and the mast-heel just cleared the stem... Worth looking at
such dimensions if ya wanna have a mast-raising that doesn't require a
crane! Oh, I suppose Richard DID raise his mast by sliding its heel along
the deck till it "dropped" over the front edge of the cabintop, but I'd be
sure worried that the heel would slide too far in and jam against the stem..
. play with a cardboard-cutout mast against the book's longitudinal-section
drawing yourself and see...
But then again, Red Zinger ain't no sharpie, she's a fish of an altogether
different shape and I suppose therefore radically different sort of
performance (especially tenderness / heeling resistance) but I can't say
which would be "better".
Wayne Gilham
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I was on-board the original Red Zinger just once when I bought her mast from
builder Dr Richard Zapf... now mind you, she was under winter-tarp up on a
trailer then, yet my distinct impression was that the interior was really
confining and kinda cut-up (think: "centerboard trunk"). Remember she's not
full standing headroom, yet the "furniture" doesn't seem well suited for
shuffling forward with but-on-bunks either. And those aft-berths go under
the cockpit for half their length... Also, the narrowed bottom (compared to
a Bolger Box or even his earlier flat-bottom, flared-side sharpies) doesn't
give much walking area... and then THAT narrow walking area is bisected by
the cenerboard trunk... Made me REALLY glad I owned a Black Skimmer, when I
got back to mine and started to install the Red Zinger mast.
Note that Red Zinger's mast-base is too long from the deck-level partners to
its heel, to allow fabrication of a true pivoting tabernacle -- heel will
strike the stem. With the further-forward stem plus greater stem-rake of a
Black Skimmer (and perhaps a slightly lower partners), I WAS able to devise
a tabernacle fabricated of steel, one-part rigidly-attached to deck, the
other part rigidly attached to mast, pivoting just a few inches above the
cabintop deck, and the mast-heel just cleared the stem... Worth looking at
such dimensions if ya wanna have a mast-raising that doesn't require a
crane! Oh, I suppose Richard DID raise his mast by sliding its heel along
the deck till it "dropped" over the front edge of the cabintop, but I'd be
sure worried that the heel would slide too far in and jam against the stem..
. play with a cardboard-cutout mast against the book's longitudinal-section
drawing yourself and see...
But then again, Red Zinger ain't no sharpie, she's a fish of an altogether
different shape and I suppose therefore radically different sort of
performance (especially tenderness / heeling resistance) but I can't say
which would be "better".
Wayne Gilham
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