[alberg30] small traditional day cruiser

[John Birch]

From: John Birch <Sunstone at idirect.com>

Sanders

Another pretty classic is the Bluenose Class, cuddy cabin, narrow beam, full keel
sloop with spoon bow and counter stern. At 23' LOA, large cockpit, daysailer and
overnighter about $4000 CDN for a used model, made at Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia,
Canada to a design by Roue I believe.

Worth a look if you are an Alberg Lover but looking to down size. Or an Alberg 22?

John

SandersM at aol.com wrote:

> From: SandersM at aol.com
>
> In a message dated 1/31/00 6:02:11 AM, RABBIT649 at aol.com writes:
>
> >    What's out there in traditional hulls from 20-28' with a big cockpit
> >and  little or no cabin, for weekending and gunkholing a big bay?
>
> Oh gosh, that depends.  I spent an awful lot of time thinking about just the
> sort of boat you're looking for before before I bought my A30, so I have no
> lack of ideas on the subject.  Since it takes us away from A30s, we can take
> the discussion off-list if others find it objectionable.  But since you asked
> ....
>
> If you're willing to shoulder the added cost and work of a wooden boat -- and
> it's not monumental when you get down to boats in this range -- then there
> are a vast array of options.  Two easy ways to explore the wooden boat
> market:  (1) WoodenBoat magazine, and (2) the Cannell, Page & Payne brokerage
> up in Camden, Maine.   One object of my boatlust is called a Laurinkoster, a
> 28-foot double-ended sloop from Sweden.  Gray & Gray (York, ME)  has one
> listed at $24k, and the listing and a drool-provoking photograph is posted
> online at
>
> http://www2.yachtworld.com/boats/view_result.cgi?boat_id=29083&units=&listing_
> id=1572&page=broker
>
> Another beauty is the Alerion-class sloop designed by Nat Herreshoff.  It's a
> 26-footer with a small cuddy cabin, very sweet lines.  The originals were
> built in wood and gaff-rigged, but forget about them.  For a while in the
> early 1980s, they were built cold-molded out on Martha's Vineyard by a place
> called Sanford Boats with a masthead rig; the boats combined the beauty of
> wood with the maintenance characteristics of a glass boat.  Jimmy Buffett
> owned one, called Savannah Jane.  More recently, Gary Hoyt has tried to
> reproduce the design in fibreglass, with mixed success.  They are pretty, but
> I've heard that Tillotson-Pearson has skimped on the construction.
>
> Another very pretty boat in this class is called a Sakonnet 23, built by Edey
> & Duff, the smae people who built the Crockett-designed the Stone Horse in
> glass.  The Sakonnet  is currently in production; it's another canoe-stern
> sloop, no cabin, strictly a daysailor/gunkholer, draws less than 2 feet with
> the board up, very pretty, but not cheap.  I don't know if there are any in
> brokerage yet, but Edey & Duff would be a good place to start.  You can see
> the boat and the usual propaganda at this URL:
>
> http://www.by-the-sea.com/edey&duff/edsakon.html
>
> Okay, now, if money's not an object, I've saved the best for last.  There is
> a French builder of several traditional French boats in this range that are
> just exquisite:  A 23-foot daysailor called Tofinou, and a 26-footer with a
> small cabin called Tadorne.  You can see them at
>
> http://www.classic-boats.com/
>
> Price?  As J.P. Morgan once replied in response to a query as to the asking
> price of his yacht:  "If you have to ask, you can't afford it."
>
> Okay, I could run on forever on this subject, and I apologize for doing so
> for the third time in three days.  I should probably get back to my day job
> now.
>
> Sanders.
>
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