S/V Constance, Alberg 30 #262 -- Blogs

  • Alberg 30 Blogs (Active)
    • Sailing the Aqua Marie #582
    • Owen Sutton #210?
    • Abroad Reach Travel Andy Johns,
      • now on a 1980 Tartan 37 Episode 8 on 2022-02-16
      • in place of 1965 Ecola #104 MD 1653 CH on Episode 33 on 2022-01-06
    • Triteia #55 (tracker) most recently watched: #191 2020-06-14 on 2020-06-18
    • Antares II #118 most recently read: 2015-12-23 on 2017-03-07 (also search YouTube for "justin hoye-house")
    • Defiant #139 most recently read: 2017-09-24 on 2017-09-25
    • Laughing Gull #197 most recently read: 2017-02-24 on 2017-03-21
    • Ariose #392?? most recently read: 2022-08-16 on 2022-08-17
    • Natalie B #456 most recently read: 2016-11-18 on 2017-03-21
    • Hireath #498 most recently read: 2017-12-26 on 2018-03-27
    • Into the Blue #609 most recently read: 2017-09-26 on 2017-10-17
    • Nautica #614 most recently read: 2018-12-21 on 2019-02-21
    • Santa Mojo #597 most recently read: 2014-09-06 on 2017-01-07
    • Little Sark most recently read: 2017-01-04 Trip postponed ?
  • Alberg 30 Blogs (Inactive)
    • We Live on a Sailboat ?? #?? most recently read: 2016-11-01
    • Alberg 30 Sailboat Project most recently read: 2012-08-11 entry on 2016-11-15 Last Entry ? Dead blog ?
    • Tradewinds #48 most recently read: 2005-03-31 on 2016-11-15
    • Slainte #129 most recently read: 2017-10-07 on 2017-10-20 Sold
    • LinGin #244 most recently read: 2013-07-01 on 2016-11-15
    • Cookie #329 most recently read: 2013-04-05 on 2016-11-15
    • Salacia #457 most recently read: 2016-07-31 on 2017-03-21 -- project stopped October 2017. Sold March 2018
    • Salsa #504 most recently read: 2013-08-28 on 2016-11-15 Last Entry ? Dead blog ?
  • Alberg 30 Other
    • Far Reach Voyages, a Cape Dory 36
    • Jean-du-Sud #399 most recently read: 2016-11-01
    • Lady K Sailing: Alberg 30 Maggie Liz #124 new owner episode 105 and 106. Regarding circumnavigation Sailing Uma episode 437 on 2025-04-21; skipped 381, 408, 420, 434 and 435. Converted to non-liner boat in episode 389.
    • The Duracell Project
    • WindTraveler
    • Wave Rover Contessa 26
    • Erik Aanderaa Contessa 35 "New Engine, Navigation, and much more!" 2021-05-13
    • Building Evelyn by Bristol Shipwrights Episode 9 on 2020-11-08
    • Tally Ho (specs) rebuilding a 110 year old classic sailing yacht. 2022-11-19 Episode 215 on 2025-04-16 (Episode 131 on 2022-07-30)
    • Millenial Falcon (tracker), a Tayana Vancouver 42 Episode 222 on 2024-03-20 Skipped 193 somehow. Tue Feb 13 11:04:06 EST 2024
    • How to Sail Oceans Kevin Boothbay on a Southern Cross 31/Gilmer 31. Atlantic crossing: 2,900nm in 34 days. Episode 287 on 2025-04-21
    • Round and Square Boats -- refurbishing an english Folkboat, Paul Jones, built in 1961.
    • Sail Bros 27' Cheoy Lee 1968 restoration w/Yanmar 2QM15. Episode 29 on 2020-09-07
      • Day 1: 2,241nm to go; 2: 2,148nm; 3: 2,011nm (137nm@5.7); 4: 1,872nm (139nm@5.8); 5: 1,738nm (134nm@5.6); 6: 1,596 (142nm@5.9); 7: 1,440nm (156nm@6.5); 8: 1,326 (114nm@4.8) ; 9: 1,088 (238nm@9.9); 10: 954nm (134nm@5.6); 11: 807nm (147nm@6.1); 12: 682nm (125nm@5.2); 13: 529nm (153nm@6.4); 14: 342nm (187nm@7.8); 15: 245nm (97nm@4.0); 16: 143 (102nm@4.25); 17: 34nm (109nm@xx);
    • Keep Turning Left (KTL) season 4 film 11 on 2021-05-31
    • Project Atticus, a Pacific Seacraft 40 bought in March 2021 replaced an Allied Seawind. Update 31 on 2019-09-10`
    • Building the Total Boat Sport Dory
    • Sailing Fair Isle Episode 5 on 2020-11-18
    • Sailing La Vagabond , a Outremer 45, formerly a Beneteau Cyclades 43.4, Episode 225 on 2020-02-07
    • Wicked Salty 2019-08-08 on 2019-08-08.
    • In the Boat Shed
    • The Rigging Doctor Episode 15 2017-07-26 on 2017-11-20
      • Best Purchases: Honda EU2000 generator (1k), Dickinson diesel heater (1.2k), Mantus 65lbs anchor (750), drifter (1k), main trysail (spreader high), tethers (160 ea), DeLorme InReach (400), Monitor windvane (5.5k), Offshore Commander life raft and EPRIB (3k), VesperMarine XB8000 w/WiFi AIS xcvr (1k).
      • Worst Purchases: hard dinghy (1k), hand fishing reel, PropSpeed anti-foul paint (400), GoPro Sessions cameras, davits (1k), fisherman anchor, Ripstop nylon main (1k), flexible solar (800), laminated full batten main (10k), electric auto-pilot w/accessories (10k).
    • The Rigging Doctor Blog post 2015-08-13 on 2017-10-17
    • Navigation Training provides
      • Fundamentals of the Maneuvering Board 2 of 4 on 2017-09-15
      • Chart Plotting Series (100 ton master exam)
      • Bridge Fundamentals Film Series
      • Celestial Navigation 12 of 12 on 2017-09-05 -- Done
    • Saoirse a Pacific Seacraft Orion Saoirse 2012-12-02, video: 2018-04-11 on 2018-04-12
    • Christian Williams YouTube vidoes and blog aboard an Ericson 32-3 replaced with a 1984 Ericson 381(there are several 38's ?)
    • Maximum Sail Power by Brian Hancock of Great Circle Sails
    • Soggy Paws files
    • Satori Tayana 37, listened to talk by Lee and Rachel at Fawcetts on 2017-03-30, read 2013-05-30 on 2017-04-03
    • Emerald Steel a Bruce Roberts steel Spray 39
    • Iron Bark 35 feet steel gaff cutter
    • Ocean Navigator problems working from present backward. Most recent "First multihull circumnavigator" from Sep 25, 2007 on 2017-08-25
      • 2007 Nautical Alamanac
      • Increments and Corrections
      • Altitude Corrections
      • USNO Celestial Navigation Data for Assumed Position and Time
      • Sight Reduction by Henning Umland
    • Wavetrain most recently read: 20xx-xx-xx entry on
    • Happy Monarch - Dufour 35 most recently read: 2015-10-18 on 2017-07-28
    • Sailing Totem - Hylas 47 most recently read: 2007-07-16 on 2017-01-07
    • Joe Cooper sailing most recently read: 20xx-09-25 on 2016-12-06
    • Lackey Sailing most recently read: 2017-05-02 on 2017-05-05
    • Morgan's Cloud most recently read: __ on __
    • The Harkai Family former owners of Heron #35, most recently read: __ on __
    • Project Atticus an Allied Seawind 30
    • Salt & Tar George Buehler 35' Button cutter re-rigged as a ketch. (Episode 18 shows their earlier boats starting about 08:00). Sanded and applied StarBrite Teak Oil on cabin top in Episode 212. 66lbs claw w/ 260' x 3/8" chain $1500 2023-03. 5th boat Aries 32. Episode 307 on 2024-10-19
    • Free Range Sailing Clansman 30 outfitted with 200L diesel tank below the cabin sole with 10µ, 5µ and 2µ filters, quite similar to an Alberg 30. Episodes 143 through 201 on 2022-04-11
    • Skip Novak's Storm Sailing Techniques Episode 12 of 12 on 2017-01-20 -- Completed
    • Sailing Baby Blue , an Allied Luders 33 , Episode 15 2016-10-29 on 2017-01-11 -- Completed
    • Tallship Chronicles completed on 2019-10-20 or so
  • Films
    • Twenty Eight Feet: life on a little wooden boat life on a Herreshoff 28
    • Chasing Bubbles
    • DRUM: An Extraordinary Adventure - Whitbread 1985
    • The Fastnet Yacht Race Tragedy of 1979
    • Hold Fast from the Blue Anarchy folks 2017-06-19
    • Identity a Sailing Documentary
  • Captain Q
    1. Frers & Cibilis
    3. Waquiez Amphritrite
    4. Allied Seabreeze 35, 1966 centerboard sloop, video, Ipswich, MA, $29k 2020-10-01
    6. Bristol 39
    7. Hinckley Bermuda 40, spin-off of the Block Island 40, 1970 video centerboard yawl, external lead ballast $90k 2020-10-23
    9. Pearson Vanguard 33 with Sea Swing
    11. Scheel 45, 1973. Purchased by Ran-day in 2021.
    12. Cheoy Lee Offshore 41 ketch, 1978, $59k compare with Avocet, 2020-11-24
    13. Beneteau 461, 1997
    14. Freedom Cat Ketch 35', 2021-05-28
    16. Vindo 50 35', 1974
    20. Nimble 30
    21. Nordhavn 46 Pilothouse Trawler, 1989
    24. Pacific Seacraft Orion 27'
    27. Alden 44' Cutter, 1984
    29. Hood Yawl 46, 1963
    31. Hinckley 41, 1965 video $129k 2021-03-23
    33. Shannon 39 Cutter
    35. Warwick Cardinal 42, 1982, Kauri hull sheathed in fiberglass, $60k 2021-06-02
    37. Tripp Block Island 40 Yawl
    38. Gulfstar 50
    39. Morris M36
    40. Herreshoff Marlin, $23k, one at $20, one at $38k, 2021-05-21
    43. Seafarer 31 $5k, Kennebunk ME, 2021-06-14
    44. S2 9.2 A $16k, Yarmouth, ME, 2021-06-24
    47. Pearson 385
    48. Cape Dory 40 Cutter Derektor/Robinhood built
    52. Shannon 28 $42.5k, Peaks Island, ME, 2021-08-13
    53. Whitby 42
    63. Hughes 38
    81. Intrepid 40
    82. S&S Tartan 34
    84. Pearson 35
    85. Ocean Cruising 40, spin-off of the Bermuda 40
    88. Aloha 32
    96. Cape Dory 33, Cohasset MA, 2022-06-14
    97. New York 40, 2022-06-23 video
    98. Nautor Swan 36
    103. Hallberg Rassey Rasmus 35 video
    107. Hood 46 Ketch video
    113. Nicholson 35
    121. International 500" 32' sloop video
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