[Public-list] Happy new owner and gas smell

[Jock McClees]

Congratulations.
Re gas fumes. I had an Alberg and two years ago bought a Cal 36 built in 
1966. Last year I suddenly started smelling gas fumes. I pulled the gas tank 
and it was weeping gas. Typically galvanized tanks rust out at the bottom 
since water is heavier than gas. I now have a new tank. Yours is about the 
right age to be failing if it has never been replaced.

Assuming you need a new tank, you have probably seen the emails about 
fibreglass tanks. I would get an aluminum tank. Florida Tank in Florida, 
(you can do an internet search to find them) had great prices.
Jock McClees

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rachel" <penokee at cheqnet.net>
To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at alberg30.org>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:55 AM
Subject: [Public-list] Happy new owner


> Hi folks,
>
> I've been on the e-mail list for a couple of years, but haven't said
> much as I hadn't found a boat.  Now I'm posting to say that I'm the
> happy new owner of a 1967 Alberg 30, #221.  Yay!  She's spent her whole
> life in Michigan, but got her first taste of salt Wednesday as she
> moved to her new home on the lower Chesapeake........ on I-80 in a
> snowstorm.  Yep, it was road salt <laugh>
>
> I was nervous as a hen between the time I first saw the boat
> <swooooon!> on January 8th, until her cradle touched the ground
> yesterday after the move (I had her put on the hard for now so I can
> sort out a few things).  Whew, safely in her new home.   There was a
> lot to think about and do to get her ready for the big trip.   And I'm
> still shaking out the adrenaline from the whole thing (and pinching
> myself).
>
> Until I bought her, #221 had been owned by the same fellow who bought
> her new in 1967 (and took wonderful care of her --- thank you, Ken!).
> I hope I can be as good a steward as he and his family were.
>
> I'm going to have a million questions, I'm sure.  Tops on my list is
> finding/eliminating the source of strong gasoline fumes belowdecks, and
> removing the VC-17 bottom paint so that I can apply an ablative that
> the Chesapeake barnacles will not laugh quite as hard at.  Getting in
> the water will be great, but of course there are some things (such as
> bottom paint) that make sense to take care of now, as long as she's out
> already.
>
> It's neat to have such a wonderful owners' group and I'm glad to join
> you as a fellow A-30 owner :-)
>
> --- Rachel
> Alberg 30, #221
> Lower Chesapeake
>
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