[Public-list] Anyone looking for a project?

[Mike Lehman]

Often hull number and sail number become confused, because a sail can change 
hands many times. Whitby did make boats with the smae hull number for the 
first couple of years: 1 for Canada and the other fro the US market. The 
sails indicated US22 or KC22. This practiced stopped around hull #26 [I 
think] maybe some old-timers can help to determine when this practice was 
stopped. I do not beleive there are 2 boats with #306 however.



              Mike Lehman
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----Original Message Follows----
From: Michael Connolly <crufone at sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: [Public-list] Anyone looking for a project?
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:07:05 -0700 (PDT)

Interesting,
One the list is hull# 306 in Grenada and now we have this boat Down East 
with hull # 306.

Did Whitby ever make two boats with the same hull# ?  Does someone have the 
scoop on this?
Michael

FINNUS505 at aol.com wrote:
Hello my Alberg 30 Friends,

Looking through the local paper I saw an ad for an Alberg 30, priced 3200
bucks. Rona and I had to go see it.

1968 hull # 306 had some back luck 15 years ago. She was docked next to a
motor boat that caught fire. 306 had significant damage to her cabin trunk 
and
cabin interior. The deck and topsides on the port side were blistered from 
the
heat. But she had a new Westerbeke diesel installed just three months
before, so her current owner, a marine surveyer, bought her from the 
insurance
company.

He began to reconstruct the cabin trunk. From what I saw yesterday, it was a
good effort. But he stopped before he did the finishing work, cut out for 
the
doghouse ports or the main companion in the way of the cabin top, or
re-installed the forward ports, and the boat has sat open like this for the 
past 10
years. There is a garden growing in the cockpit. The port toe rail is off, 
as
are both cockpit coamings. The for-hatch is in place, but coming apart at
the seams; same for the aft-hatch. The cockpit locker hatch covers are
weathered, but have very minor delamination of the seams, and are still 
salvageable.

The drain plug was out, so she did not fill with water, but the interior of
the boat is shot, from fire and smoke damage, and exposure all these years.
The engine does not appear to have been in direct contact with rain or snow,
but it has alot of superficial rust. I don't know how the alternator or
starter, etc, could not have been affected.

The owner says he has all the boat's gear, but they were at a different
location, and I didn't go to see them.

No doubt she looks pretty sad right now. Like finding an Opera Diva after a
tragic amnesiatic car accident in a homeless shelter. But even with moldy,
mildewed, generic wrecks to either side, weeds below, tree branches hanging
just above, still her classic Alberg lines are undiminished. The guy is 
asking
3200, but I got the distinct impression he is tired of having her sitting
around, and would be glad to see her go at any price. He 'threatened' that 
he was
going to pull the engine out to sell, and bulldoze the hull.

For someone who wants an Alberg 30 with a Westerbeke, both needing a lot of
work, but both high on the potential list, this is worth a look. I hate to 
see
her lost. Pass the word around amongst your wharf-rat friends.............

The boat is in Seekonk, Mass, which is about an hour Southwest of Boston and
a half hour or so North from Newport, RI. Seller's cell # is 774-991-1636

Lee and Rona Trachtenberg
Stargazer #255
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