[Public-List] gulf coast 23

dan walker dsailormon at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 5 16:10:51 PST 2008


so do you know who designed the southcoast 22?

Rob Alley <1ralley at comcast.net> wrote: The Alberg design was a Southcoast 23.  I had one 20 odd years ago--it 
was my first Alberg.  Great little boat.  A mite tender in very high 
winds, and without standing head room below. I bought the Alberg when I 
got tired of yanking the outboard out of the port well.

The idiot I sold it to (who also sailed pseudo-reproduction viking 
longships)neglected the boat--it eventually sank and (I am told)was 
abandoned. I am also told that it was sturdy enough to essentially 
destroy the dock to which it was tied (in a hurricane)before it sank.
As I said, a great little boat, sturdy and reliable--if you mean the 
Southcoast.

R
FINNUS505 at aol.com wrote:
> Heya,
>  
> I saw a Gulf Coast 23 once.
>  
> They are really nice boats for the size. Typical Alberg hull, typical  layout 
> below. She was one of his boats with a very nice shear line. One unusual  
> feature; the outboard well was off to port, and a little more forward than the  
> well in other small Albergs, like the Arial, for instance. Guess he thought it  
> would give the prop more bite when the boat was pitching.
>  
> She was well made, but for one feature; this one that I saw was one of the  
> kit boats that was available from the manufacturer, to be finished by the 
> owner.  He did not do a great job glassing the ballast into the keel, and the glass 
> was  lifting, and it was obvious that water was getting in there. But if 
> something to  look at in any Gulf Coast, it doesn't mean that they all had that 
> flaw.
>  
> Wait a minute....Gulf Coast 23, or South Coast 23? I think this was a  South 
> Coast 23, made in Shreveport, Louisiana. Are you sure it is  a Gulf Coast you 
> are looking at? :)
>  
> I saw this boat when we were boat shopping, back in 90, or 91. I found  
> articles on the class in old Yachting magazines, and xeroxed them. I've got  the 
> copies in a file in a box somewhere, that I could probably could dig out if  you 
> wanted to see them.
>  
> Lee
> Stargazer #255
> 
> 
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