[Public-list] Happy new owner and gas smell

[Mike Lehman]

Rachek,

On your 'new' boat #221 the gas tank is probably [originally] in the 
starboard seat locker. It could be the tank, it could be the fuel/vent line 
or it could [very likely] be a stuck needle valve in the carburetor float. 
Needless to say that needs to be repaired. An easy way to tell if it is the 
caruretor is to put you hand under it and see if there is any wet gas. While 
you're at it check the sediment bowl and the fuel pump, both are behind the 
carburetor - I am assuming you have an Atomic 4.



Mike Lehman
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----Original Message Follows----
From: "Jock McClees" <mccleesj at comcast.net>
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To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
Subject: Re: [Public-list] Happy new owner and gas smell
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:08:45 -0500

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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