[Public-List] Albergers in the South of France Alberg vs Beneteau

[Stephen Gwyn]

I'm not sure we would have made it upwind in an Alberg:
it was blowing pretty hard. But we might have, slowly.
And we would have been safer and happier. This was a Beneteau 29.
You really had to keep a hand ready to dump the main to avoid
broaching. And there were no grab handles down below so the
boat lurched, you tended to go flying. I've never been seasick
on an Alberg (except sometimes, when I'm down below). I was
queasy on this boat, 3 days out of 4. The other day was spent
in a harbour.

The flat bottom sections meant that if there was even
2 inches of chop at the dock, you got kept up all night
with wave slap.

On the plus side, the galley was much, much better than the
spartan accommodations on the A30. The amount of back strain
I've had cooking in the A30 galley is considerable.

SG