[C320-list] RE: C320-List Digest, Vol 3, Issue 15

Tue Dec 13 10:20:51 PST 2005

Hi to all, I seem to be getting these digests OK but I don't get any of the
individual emails? I am the only one?
Joe Barrett

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Today's Topics:

   1. Spinnaker Crane (Bruce Stumpp)
   2. Re: Spinnaker Crane (Jeff Church)
   3. in boom furling (PDCatalina320 at aol.com)
   4. Re: Waterline (Chris Burti)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:22:10 -0500
From: "Bruce Stumpp" <bstumpp at comcast.net>
Subject: [C320-list] Spinnaker Crane
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Around this time last year someone on the list was talking about making
spinnaker cranes.  The only manufacturer around makes one with two bales
(sp?) but I would prefer one with a single bale. Any body on the list still
thinking about making these?

Bruce Stumpp
Adventure, #647
Frog Mortar Creek, MD   

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:36:28 -0600
From: "Jeff Church" <jjemail at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Spinnaker Crane
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After speaking to my neighbor about making me one I decided to live with 
good enough. In order to build a better single-bail crane I'd have to get up

on a very tall step ladder in the boatyard to remove mine so he could use it

as a template. While teetering up there I'd also have to do some measuring 
to figure how far forward to extend the new  bail. Material is another 
matter. It seems that all of the single bail cranes are made out of 3/16" SS

plate and a 3/8" SS bar stock bail, instead of the 3/16" SS plate that mine 
is made out of. I don't know how well that will work with our masthead and 
whatever amount of overhang we will be dealing with. Will those materials 
give it enough strength? In other words, it's way too much hassle, too much 
work at the top of a 20 foot step ladder, and there is too much risk of 
having to do it over a time or two to get it right.

I also called the guy at Rig-Rite. He wasn't very helpful. He admitted that 
his C320 crane tends to bend, but insisted that it was a good design. He 
could be right, some cranes are pre-bent from the factory. He said he could 
make a single bail crane, but he wanted ME to give HIM the design specs, and

the price he quoted was ridiculous.

Sometimes good enough is good enough.

JeffC

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From: "Bruce Stumpp" <bstumpp at comcast.net>
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Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 8:22 PM
Subject: [C320-list] Spinnaker Crane

> Around this time last year someone on the list was talking about making
> spinnaker cranes.  The only manufacturer around makes one with two bales
> (sp?) but I would prefer one with a single bale. Any body on the list 
> still
> thinking about making these?
> 
> Bruce Stumpp
> Adventure, #647
> Frog Mortar Creek, MD
> 

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:19:01 EST
From: PDCatalina320 at aol.com
Subject: [C320-list] in boom furling
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Rollie,Russ,Karl & Pat,  I went with Forespar's liesure furl. Yes,  you do 
need a new main and it should be from someone who has made the sail  before
and 
has worked with the rigger before. Forespar has instructions for  both. Mine

has 5 full battens and is a very flat sail.  List cost is  $5,000,  and I
got 
mine installed for that. (plus cost of sail).  I  used my factory rigid
vang, 
just had to change to the stronger red springs to  suport the heavier boom, 
(factory springs are yellow).  My system all came  from a local S.F. Bay
rigger 
who had many references.  Changing out the  goose neck takes a professional.
I 
have had it for one full season now and am  happy with it. It does make for 
some longer winching the sail up and also you  have to winch the sail down.
A 
electric winch would help. Maybe later for  me.
  Hope this helps,   Paul,  Sobrante  #850

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 05:27:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Burti <cburti at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Waterline
To: Allan.Field at comcast.net, C320-List <C320-List at catalina320.com>
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Where were you last month Allan? I just had mine
repainted due to damage that resulted from her being
hauled out of the swamp after Ophelia. Probably would
have been a great solution!

--- Allan Field <Allan.Field at comcast.net> wrote:

> Yesterday I was down at the boat trying to clean the
> waterline.  The
> starboard side - again this year - was fairly easy
> as the waterline sits out
> of the water.  The port side is a bear-and-a-half
> due to the port list.  But
> I got an idea - has anyone tried to raise the
> waterline?  It seems to me
> that if the waterline was raised about an inch on
> the port side, one could
> put bottom paint up the hull that extra inch and
> problem solved with trying
> to clean the waterline.  Plus the list becomes less
> obvious.  But I have no
> idea how blue 6-inch stripe just above the white
> waterline is applied.  Is
> the blue line paint or is it a pigment in the
> gelcoat?  Or something else?
> Any feedback or ideas would be appreciated. 
> 
>  
> 
> Allan S. Field
> 
> Sea Shadow - #808
> 
> Herrington Harbour South
> 
> Rosehaven, MD
> 
>  
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Chris Burti
"Commitment"
Catalina 320, #867, 
Farmville, NC

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