[Alberg30] Preparing to Buy (sort of long, sorry)

[Scott Wallace]

Brian and Elaine are absolutely right!

The CD25 was designed by Stadel, it was a modified hull and is rather small for
your needs.  If you buy the Cape Dory 25 you will enjoy her for a year, then
wish you had a bigger boat inside.  We sailed a Pearson Electra (23' LOD,
3000#) for four years but she only had 4' headroom and the outboard would pop
up out of the water on Lake Erie; we just bought a Rhodes Meridian with 6'
headroom and an inboard diesel...

The Alberg 30 will not be much more too handle than the CD25...Carl Alberg
designed the CD 25D, which is a little larger inside.  I have always had the
Alberg 30 on my list of "Dream Boats" and it was pretty close to the top!

Scott Wallace, Rhodes Meridian WATERMARK

Brian and Elaine Timmins wrote:

>  Tom,
>     If you buy the CD25, you'll almost immediately wish for the extra space
> of the A30. Go sit in a CD25 and imagine being stuck in the cabin all day in
> bad weather. The A30 is comfortable (and sails better too). Yes, it's bigger
> which means everything costs more. Not true if you consider doing everything
> twice (once on a CD then again on an A30). If your really worried about the
> inboard, the A30 comes in (basically) two varieties. Most originally came
> with the Atomic 4 gas engine. This is THE most reliable and easiest to work
> on gas marine engine! There is sort of a cult built up around this engine
> with a couple of real Guru's. There are web sites for info, mail lists for
> conversation, and lots of dependable sources for parts. It's a very simple
> engine.  The other choice is a diesel. If you don't understand diesels, they
> can be a bit intimidating at first. As your knowledge starts to grow, all of
> a sudden you'll say "NOW I understand". Diesels are very simple and
> dependable engines (once you hit that point).      In either case they are
> better than outboards. Even with the outboard in an inboard well like the
> CD25, when you are powering into head seas (and I don't mean giant head
> seas) the outboard is too far aft and too high on the hull ands ends up
> plunging in and out of the water. This will happen on most power boat wakes
> you'll encounter. The other thing that happens when this see sawing happens
> is that the power head of the outboard gets heavily sprayed (almost dunked
> in some cases) with sea water. Not a good thing.
>   I could go on but I feel I'm starting to rant. Choose an inboard. You'll
> be happier in the long run.
> Regards,
> Brian    ex#497
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>  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?
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