I have attached a schematic drawing (pictured above) of how my Albacore is rigged. It is
very simple and I just copied the rigging from another Albacore in the
marina. I already had 3 of the blocks when I bought the boat 2nd hand -
so did not want to do anything fancy - just get it going. Plus this
rigging method does not take up a lot of space compared to other rigging
methods I have seen on Albacores.
I have shortened the tiller (replaced the original Aluminium tiller with a
home-made wooden tiller) so I can be further back in the boat without
having to do acrobatics during a tack or jibe. On the tiller, I have installed both an
Auto Releasing Cleat
and an extra V cleat in case the Auto Releasing Cleat
stops working reliably. (I also have this style of backup with
the centerboard Auto Releasing Cleat -
by having another ClamCleat using Shock-Cord)
If you have a swing keel/center board - and a kick up rudder - you might
like to look into getting
Auto Releasing Cleats. They are absolutely
wonderful and limits the risk of giving your crew and boat injuries if
you hit some shallows. The Ottawa river can go lower than usual with increased risk of hitting sand and rocks. But due to the
auto releasing cleats, there is no
big drama.
Re the jib and my single handling setup: The reason for jib cleats near
the main sheet is that I can release the jib without having to let go of
the mainsheet: as letting go of the mainsheet while setting the jib is
an easy cause of turtling the boat. This did not work as there was too
much friction. And have changed to swivel cleats on the port and
starboard sides.
For single handling, I just use a main sail, no jib. For heavier winds,
I use the smaller firefly sail.
For social and comfort sailing (2006 season), have purchased a Crew
Saver 40 liter Mast Float to stop/limit turtling: on two occassions when
capsize occured, the Albacore did not turtle due to the mast float. To
minimize tangling on setup, the main sail is raised first, then the Mast
Float, then the jib.
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Calmly we walk through this April's day,
(This is the school in which we learn...)
Avid its rush, that reeling blaze!
Each minute bursts in the burning room,
"Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day"
(Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966))
Metropolitan poetry here and there,
In the park sit pauper and rentier,
The screaming children, the motor-car
Fugitive about us, running away,
Between the worker and the millionaire
Number provides all distances,
It is Nineteen Thirty-Seven now,
Many great dears are taken away,
What will become of you and me
(This is the school in which we learn...)
Besides the photo and the memory?
(...that time is the fire in which we burn.)
What is the self amid this blaze?
What am I now that I was then
Which I shall suffer and act again,
The theodicy I wrote in my high school days
Restored all life from infancy,
The children shouting are bright as they run
(This is the school in which they learn . . .)
Ravished entirely in their passing play!
(...that time is the fire in which they burn.)
Where is my father and Eleanor?
Not where are they now, dead seven years,
But what they were then?
No more? No more?
From Nineteen-Fourteen to the present day,
Bert Spira and Rhoda consume, consume
Not where they are now (where are they now?)
But what they were then, both beautiful;
The great globe reels in the solar fire,
Spinning the trivial and unique away.
(How all things flash! How all things flare!)
What am I now that I was then?
May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.
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