[Alberg30] Acadian

[Scott Wallace]

Today I watched as my George McVay built, William Roue designed (except
for the cuddy cabin: ) was prepared for her trip to Connecticut to her new
home!  George built his boats in Mahone Bay, N.S., and his son William,
designed a small boat, the Victoria 18, made in DeBary, Florida from the
late 1970's through the mid 1980's.  They have a website with a photo of
my Bluenose Sloop Hell-Diver.  The Victoria was greatly influenced by the
Bluenose.  My wife and I fell in love with sailing after seeing a swank
little Victoria 18 sailing pertly on our local inland mud lake near
Cincinnati.  Years later we bought that boat and she sailed so well with
her shoal draft fixed keel that I stuck with full keel boats afterwards!

McVay also I believe, designed and built a 18' boat, the Minuet!

Sailing my Bluenose on Lake Erie for the first time was somewhat of a deja
vu experience reminding me so much of our Victoria, the Raven, that it was
amazing...however  the longer waterline and full keel of the Bluenose put
me in Mellow Drive!

We are now anxiously awaiting the shipping of our Philip L. Rhodes
designed Rhodes Meridian, WATERMARK!  She reminds me so much of a smaller
Alberg 30 : )

Scott Wallace

Matthew Wynn wrote:

> Hi George,
>
>    Below are some web pages/sites with information on the Acadian sloop
> and yawl. The brochure credits George McVay with the design. Paceship
> built a large range of yachts from dinghies up to about 32' many of
> which George designed. I met George at his plant in Mahone Bay not long
> before his death and he enthusiastically showed me a number of his
> prototypes which to my knowledge were never mass produced. I owned one
> of Georges designs - a Cruisette. I sailed in a number of others but
> only got on board an Acadian Yawl which was very popular. McVay was a
> prolific designer and at one time had his own company - McVay Yachts.
> The following web sites provide more info:
>
> www.paceship.org/Designers/McVay.htm
> www.victoriayachts.com/mcvayart.html
> www.paceship.org/history.htm
> www.paceship.org/downloads/brochure-Acadian.pdf
> www.paceship.org/Downloadpages/brochures_downloads.htm
>
> Matthew Wynn Tazar  #424
>
> George Dinwiddie wrote:
>
> > Has anyone heard of the Acadian, built in Nova Scotia?  Here's what I
> > have so far: http://www.alberg30.org/CarlAlberg/Acadian/
> >
> >  - George
> >
>
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