[Public-List] Alberg longevity (was RE: Mast Beam Repair)

[Gordon Laco]

That's nice Hugh.  I wonder if I met your friend?  I am afraid I don't  
remember who the fellow was who I was talking to except that he was a  
retired boat builder.  I have an image of a short,  slight man with  
white longish hair, creased face and blue eyes.  I guess that  
describes a good portion of the Danish male population over the age if  
sixty five...

I used to have a customer in my Tom Taylor Co. days who told me about  
setting out from someplace in Denmark for Norway in a Folkboat in  
rough condition.  The weather got bad and they failed to make their  
landfall.  They struggled on as the food and water ran out.   Several  
days later they saw mountains and rejoiced at their salvation.   When  
they got ashore they found that nobody spoke Norwegian.  They tried  
Swedish but that didn't work either.  It turned out they were in  
Scotland.  They had to sell the boat to raise passage home.

G



On 8-Jan-10, at 9:06 AM, Hugh McCormack wrote:

>
> Hi Gord,
>
>
>
> One of the many things that makes our old #39 special to me is that  
> our next door neighbour in Bay Ridges from 1963-1974 was a Dane who  
> worked for Whitby Boats.  I think of him each time I'm on board.  I  
> don't remember if he worked in their carpentry shop or if he was  
> involved in other aspects of the construction.  However he was  
> certainly involved in building our boat.  He was always building  
> things from scrap teak and mahogany brought home from the shop and  
> his son and I would get the leftovers as paly material.  I can  
> almost hear Ip speaking the words you quote.
>
>
>
> Happy New Year,
>
>
>
> Hugh
>
>> From: mainstay at csolve.net
>> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
>> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:59:22 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Mast Beam Repair
>>
>> Hi Mike -
>>
>> Your comment brings to mind a conversation I had nearly thirty years
>> ago with a old Danish boat builder. We were discussing the
>> construction techniques used in building Folkboats. He said to me "ve
>> never taut deese things vood still be around - ve built dem good, but
>> quick! Dey wuz supposed to be cheap, light racing boats."
>>
>> I wonder if the boys at Whitby Boatworks thought that (up to) fifty
>> years later people would still be sailing and enjoying the A30?
>> Considering the pace at which they were built, I think the fact that
>> most are still good boats, still sailing and giving people pleasure,
>> is a testament to the people who built them.
>>
>> Gord
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