[Public-List] Updated Alberg 30 History

[Kris Coward]

That reminds me that I was recently in touch with the people who bought
Gay Gordon (#188) from Gord Proctor back in 1984. Fred & Dawn Jurgensen
changed the name to Fredawn, and Fredawn is currently up for sale out in
Eastern Ontario (I stumbled across the kijiji listing while looking to
see if there were any articles floating around out there about
replacing the "newer" under-sole holding tanks which appear to be
integral to the liner).

Also, the Janice of Little Wing (#260) is Janice Blackburn; she and Rory
look to be keeping the name Little Wing, and sailing out of Queen City.

Finally, on the entries for Candy Cane (#583), my last name is Coward,
not Howard, and I bought Candy Cane from Doug in 2004 rather than 2003.

Cheers,
Kris

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 07:16:07PM -0500, George Dinwiddie wrote:
> It's now posted.
>
> Robert Kirk wrote:
>> 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
>> Isobar #181
>>
>>
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