[alberg30] Re: Alberg 30 ??'s

[Bill Slater]

From: cd25d at clnk.com (Bill Slater)

Thanks for your comments.  The boat is an older model (icebox is upright and
can be accessed from the cockpit as well as the cabin.  I dont know the hull
number, but will attempt to find out today.

Thanks again for your comments.

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: RABBIT649 at aol.com <RABBIT649 at aol.com>
To: alberg30 at onelist.com <alberg30 at onelist.com>
Date: Monday, November 09, 1998 2:13 AM
Subject: [alberg30] Re: Alberg 30 ??'s


>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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