[Public-list] 25' 1961 Whitby-Alberg design

[Gordon Laco]

Hi there - 

What you have is likely a morph of the classic Folkboat design that Whitby
built in large numbers as the 'Continental Folkboat'.

They are good little boats and usually sell for $9,000 to $12,000 depending
on condition.

Carl Alberg did not have a hand in the design but there is a
relationship...the genesis of the Alberg 30 was a group of Toronto Folkboat
sailors giving Whitby Boatworks' owner Karl Hansen a specification for a
larger boat that would retain the characteristics of their Danish boats.
Hansen had been importing Danish built wooden Folkboats for some time, then
building glass ones over here.

Do you know the hull number of your boat?

Gord Laco 





> Dear Alberg-people:  I have a  25-foot, 1961 Whitby, no doubt designed by
> Carl Alberg.  I need to sell  this boat, and I advertised it cheaply over the
> winter, but couldn't find the  pictures I took when the boat was on the hard.
> While a bunch of people are  interested in the boat, I didn't want to take new
> pictures until I spruced the  boat up a bit.  Now that I'm finishing
> repainting 
> the interior, and have  done some sanding and urethaning of her exterior teak
> (not all of it, yet), I  want to raise the price tag a bit.  All my research
> has shown me that this  is probably a one-of-a-kind design, designed and built
> the first year Whitby  Boat Works and Carl Alberg got together.  I thought,
> from a boat plan I saw  once, that she looked more like an Alberg 37, than an
> Alberg 30, but I haven't  taken the time to look more closely into that (and
> does it matter?)  She  has an external rudder, mounted to her hull and keel.
> Her Vetus diesel  engine had "walked away" just before I bought her, and
> though 
> I may know where a  replacement can be found, I don't want to invest more
> money in her.   Her laminated tiller had also disappeared, and a replacement
> was 
> fashioned  from a single piece of wood.  I think I have her roller-furling
> jib, 
> though I don't remember it being very crisp.  I don't know if I  have her
> main.  (She has a roller-boom, though I don't know that it was  used.)  Her
> standing rigging is in fine shape, and I bought new running  rigging, (though
> have 
> to find it).  Her interior has an extensive amount of  mahogany, which I'm
> not retouching, as most of it is in good to excellent  condition.  I'm not
> repainting the hull, though I may finish  compound/waxing before I find a
> suitable 
> buyer.  Her deck and cabin top are  not painted, but seem to be a gelcoat,
> tinted a pale, mint green.
> What is a fair price for this pretty,  extremely strongly built boat?  I was
> planning to put it on Ebay, after I  take the new pictures of her, but am
> afraid I will not reach the right audience,  and she will be undervalued.
> I would appreciate any input, and  especially any historical information
> about her.  She had no name on her,  so I named her "Frolic".
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