[Alberg30] More Drastic Changes

R C Alley ralley at chesapeake.net
Wed Oct 1 04:29:39 PDT 2003


Mike Lehman wrote:

>Actually Rob, the average depth of the Chesapeake is 13'.
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>  Amy & David Swanson wrote:
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>  >"...  We all need a retractable centerboard in lieu of encapsulated ballast.
>  >An hour with a chain saw ought to begin the project!!!"
>  >
>  >You guys are scaring me.  Especially since your water is so much deeper than
>  >mine.
>  >
>  >David Swanson
>  >Strayaway Child
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>  Well, it isn't all deeper.  Most of the Chesapeake is about 18 inches 
>  deep.  Being an estuary about 200 miles long with several thousand miles 
>  of coastline (if you add up the length of the banks of all the rivers 
>  and large creeks) there is an awful lot of it where Albergs can't go.  
>  That makes the perfect Chesapeake boat a flat bottomed shoal draft sloop 
>  or yawl with a centerboard--like, strangely enough, a skipjack or one of 
>  its bigger cousins.  I know where there are some recent tree falls that 
>  are big enough to build a good sized boat.......thanks to Isabel.  But, 
>  since I already have the Alberg,  I .........
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>  Rob
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More silt from Isabel, no doubt!!!!

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