Re: cracked boom replacement

Gordon (hlg@pacbell.net)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:25:59 -0800

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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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>JB posted:
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>>Have you considered replacing your wooden boom with an aluminum one? it
>would
>>be a lot less work than doing what I suggested to repair it. Not as pretty
>>though.
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>Not to be a purest, but an aluminum boom on a P-14 would look as out of
>place as, say... a Lateen rig! (Got-cha Harry.)
>
>LCL

Larry:

Or as out of place as all the Potters built with aluminum spars since the
REAL Potter (gunter rig) design was abandoned by HMS Marine in the 1970s.
At least the lateen rig retains a three-spar configuration.

If anyone is curious as to what a lateen rig P14 looks like, see
<http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/modifications/Variants/Lateen/Manatee_Lat2.jpg>

and
<http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/modifications/Variants/Lateen/Manatee_Lat.jpg>.

Historical notes:
Italian fishermen once plied San Francisco Bay in lateen-rigged feluccas.
Some of Van Gogh's paintings show lateen rigged fishing boats.
More Sunfish have been built and sold than any other sailboat design.

Harry Gordon
P14 #234, Manatee
Convertible rigs - gunter or lateen

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