[Public-List] Whitby Ontario

[Dominic Amann]

I love the idea of mice people toiling away in the original Alberg shop in
Whitby. I bet they do a great job of rigging.

On 10 August 2018 at 07:56, Gordon Laco via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> Good morning gang
>
> Well here I am in Whitby Ontario, where our boats were build, standing
> outside the very building.   I’m here to meet HMCS Oriole (google her) to
> work with her trainees for the day.
>
> There’s a boat repair business still operating in part of the building;
> mice people, I think I’ll say hello while waiting for Oriole to arrive.
>
> Lovely cool morning... I’m imagining Oriole gliding on the nw breeze
> reaching across the lake... watches about to change, breakfast being
> rustled up in the messes...
>
> And also thinking of what a busy boat building town this was... Whitby
> Boatworks was here, Aloha Yachts, nearly twenty more in the general area.
> All closed during the 1980’s    I used to call that time ‘the great age of
> extinctions’.   What did it?   Market saturation? Higher interest rates?
> Dumping of cheap US built yachts onto the market without regulation?
> Higher costs for resins connected to oil market dips and surges?   All
> those things I guess.  What a time that was... I was just out of school and
> in my first full time job... we couldn’t build rigs fast enough... for a
> while.  I just caught the end of the glory days.
>
> Gord
> 426 Surprise
>
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Dominic Amann

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