[Public-List] Updated Alberg 30 History

[Robert Kirk]

I've updated the A30 History spreadsheet and it should be up on the website 
presently when George is able to get to it. I've added significantly more 
boat info from the original version, and thanks very much to Ken 
Stephenson,  have the original shipping date and dealer or owner of all the 
boats from 1968 till the end of production in 1984.

It's interesting that Whitby relied mostly on dealers in  the early days 
(Jabin & Evanson in Maryland, Yacht Haven on L I Sound, and Western in 
Vancouver were the major dealers, but he sold in Detroit & Texas, too. One 
was sent to Venezuela.) and then sold directly from Toronto as production 
diminished in the late years. Most all the boats from '75 on were sold in 
Canada while USA dominated the early ones. #704 in June '84 was the last 
boat, and the only one built that year.

# 354 at the end of 1968 saw a new deck mold, and #410 at the beginning of 
1970 saw the New Model, (he apparently kept that one for himself.)

Whitby started installing Bukhs, off & on, probably as special orders 
~74-77, and in '78 shifted pretty much exclusively to Volvos.

Interestingly, Numbers 656-699 were apparently not used; i.e. #655 in 
jun/81 was followed by #700  in Sep/82.

I'm still confused about #322 & #389 which seemed to have swapped numbers. 
389 was Harry Grigat's boat; maybe he has an explanation.

Also, the provenance of 618/641/639 is confusing; anyone help?

I'm sure there may be errors in my spreadsheet. The first version was 
pretty well documented, but this one involves some speculation. Please let 
me know about any corrections or additional information. Do you remember 
who owned your boat before you? My convention is that I only list ownership 
years I'm pretty certain about, and locations are the last I knew about. 
I'd like to expand the ownership years.

Give George a couple of days to get the posting up on the alberg30.org 
website (he's a busy man) then have a look. All input appreciated.

Bob Kirk
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