[alberg30] Re: Alberg 30 ??'s

[RABBIT649 at aol.com]

From: RABBIT649 at aol.com

A couple of things:
		1)There are early ones and late ones. The split is around 160 something (in
time, the early 70's.). Originally the boat was made with wooden bulkheads
tabbed to the hull and no liner. And the deck and cabin top were cored with
masonite (pegboard), which no one has had any trouble with re: delamination.
All the deck thru fitting pionts are solid glass (to be fair, I think the
latter is true of the balsa cored deck in the newer ones.). But many people
have reproted delamination around stanchion and deck fittings on these newer
boats.
		2) The boat heels a lot in stiff breezes but is very safe and fun to sail.
		3)It's not roomy for a typical modern 30. The cabin dogs down in front and
the bilges are fairly high ( part of why she sails so well), so there's no
full  headroom forward and not much beam: around 8' 6". Compared to, say, a
Tartan 30 of the 70's, she's cramped.
	But, she is a very solid and well designed boat. If you're in the market,
look critically at your interior wood. If there are any freshwater leaks from
the deck into the interior, you could have freshwater rot in interior
bulkheads (as I do) and there's no solution but to rip them out and  redo
them. Look at the front two bulkheads on the port, at the chainplates and the
whole forward bulkhead that support the mast arch. Look down at where they
tabbed the bunk side wall  to the inside of the hull.. Don't be afraid to dig
past the tabbing with a sharp icepick.
Regards,

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