[Alberg30] Preparing to Buy

[Tom DeWitt]

Jim & Company,

That's valuable input.  My gut was telling me the same thing that you just
did.  Did you have any experience, direct or indirect, with pulling the CD25
on a trailer?  A Class II hitch is rated at 3500 lbs and the boat weighs
4000 plus trailer weight.  My vehicles can only take the Class II.  Any idea
if there's enough margin to cheat on this for local transportation?  I can
see value in buying a CD25 to learn by doing, and if I can readily trail it
to a pleasant environment to do the work that's all good too.  That would,
of course, mean that the A30 would be my second go round but the bigger boat
might be too much for a first project particularly with the inboard.  What
do you think?

Tom

BTW - It's pretty much one or two nights at a time for now.  I've been
aboard the CD25 so I understand the limitations.

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Tom

Having owned both the Cape Dory 25 and an A30, I will recommend the A30.
Launching and recovering a trailer mounted CD25 is just like launching the
A30.  You go to a yard and have it put in.  Any ramp that will let you get a
3' draft sailboat in will be too steep to recover from (unless you have a
long trailer).  Also the living space in the CD is sitting headroom.  Not
bad for a weekend, but for a week+?

I guess the real question is are you ready to get adopted into the Alberg 30
family?

Jim Davis
S/V Isa Lei
CT 35

ps The reason we sold our A30 is because we needed more room, since in the
fall of '04 we are fleeing frost and snow.  When we decide to downsize it
will be back to an A30.
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