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pwhallon
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Initially Posted - 02/27/2005 : 10:06:26

Sorry guys,

I'm not trying to beat a drum or anything but this popped up on ebay and I thought you might get a kick out of seeing it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=63731&item=4530277459&rd=1

PW

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Gloss
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Response Posted - 02/27/2005 : 10:49:50

that's one ugly looking boat

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At Ease
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Response Posted - 02/27/2005 : 14:42:07

I agree with Frank...those 30' Pearsons are ugly, and I do not understand the fascination with them. Can't see paying $11k for an ugly 30' boat that is 36 years old. Believe I'd put my $11k toward a mid 80s C30.

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pwhallon
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Response Posted - 02/27/2005 : 16:46:59

Oh Yea,

She's no supermodel.

I don't think they built many Pearson 300s. It's on the Wanderer/Coaster style hull.

Kind of a prehistoric deck saloon.

She's the "mother" of the better looking and faster P-30.

PW

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Ray Seitz
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Response Posted - 02/27/2005 : 18:47:55

Thats one of Shaws early designs, still under Albergs influence, before he learned to fly. The 30 is a much better choice. You could get a 30' Cape Dory (a true Alberg design) for just a little more $ if you really want a full keel boat with better lines. The really old Pearsons, I have to agree withh the others are ugly.

Edited by - Ray Seitz on 02/27/2005 19:00:29

takokichi
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Response Posted - 02/28/2005 : 09:57:17

Older Pearsons are ugly?

http://www.triton381.com/

Local boat - I'm in the launching pictures if you look hard enough (not that you would

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Edited by - takokichi on 02/28/2005 09:57:52

pwhallon
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Response Posted - 02/28/2005 : 10:27:49

That's a really nice Triton.

PW

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At Ease
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Response Posted - 02/28/2005 : 13:52:46

Lots of work in that boat!

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Ray Seitz
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Response Posted - 03/01/2005 : 14:58:32

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Older Pearsons are ugly?
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Yep don't like what they did to get headroom. They are not alone in that era.

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Douglas
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Response Posted - 03/02/2005 : 01:19:11

Triska my Alberg 29

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Ed Montague
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Response Posted - 03/02/2005 : 14:36:21

Surprizingly, with such a long boat, how little living area there is below deck. Not much more then our own C25's. Beautiful, elegant, and all the sea worthy stuff. All the overhang fore and aft reduces it's interior comfort for cruising. At least that is my humble opinion. With that said I would still be interested if offered the boat at the right price. Love the looks of Douglas's Triska!!!!

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cclark
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Response Posted - 03/02/2005 : 15:48:41

Ed-
I think we get spoiled by the cabin room in our Catalinas. Have you ever gone to a boat show and compared feeling of the cabin interiors of various makes? I find that Catalinas interior feels like other makes of 2-4 ft longer. JMHO
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<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Ed Montague
 Surprizingly, with such a long boat, how little living area there is below deck. Not much more then our own C25's. Beautiful, elegant, and all the sea worthy stuff. All the overhang fore and aft reduces it's interior comfort for cruising. At least that is my humble opinion. With that said I would still be interested if offered the boat at the right price. Love the looks of Douglas's Triska!!!!
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Douglas
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Response Posted - 03/02/2005 : 17:21:40

Guess you boys havent been below on an Alberg 29. She has 6'2" standing head room and a beam of over 9'. I owned a C-25 traditional for 7 years. Beleve me the Alberg is a whole new world. I have a full gally with 2 burner stove and oven. Ice box, sink, plate , cup etc storage. Main cabin has side cabinets, storage below and behind the seats, Sleeps five. Head on Port side and vanity on Stbd. She will keep you dry in a gale and sails well up into the 40kts range. You can be out on the bay when all the others have gone in for the day.

and she has a great little 2GM Yanmar that runs on about 3/4 of a pint per hour.
If your ever in the Tacoma area drop a line or call and we will go for a sail.

Edited by - Douglas on 03/02/2005 17:24:54

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Response Posted - 03/02/2005 : 17:31:54

She's a beauty, for sure - inside and out. You must have looked far and wide to find one that nice, Douglas.

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Ed Montague
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Response Posted - 03/02/2005 : 18:50:16

Amen to Steve's comments!!

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Douglas
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Response Posted - 03/02/2005 : 19:48:08

Ass it always seems to be finding a boat even Triska was a fluke. You know we had a wonderful C-25. We had a bad weather exteriance some of you may have experianced. Large waves, high wind, your pounding into it. The outboard is swinging in a arc spending half of its time in the air. You cant motor , you can sail and in general your getting beat up . Wife says we need a bigger boat, one that can take the seas and perhaps even off shore. Your reply -- Oh yes dear Ill see what I can do. Days pass . The wife is at work its Friday and Im playing about at work looking on Yachtworld. Plenty of nice boats Nor' Sea
Com Pac on and on but your looking for a Cape Dory. We found one. She was a beauty. Broker was a flake and even though we had made a deposit he sold it to someone else. It was an elegal raw deal and I was depresed at loosing the boat. So Im playing on Yachtworld and I find this boat under a search for Alberg rather than Cape Dory. She looks cute, salty and is a much better price that those gold plated CDs. I copy and paste it to an E mail to the wife. She calls and says lets drive up to Canada for a look see this weekend. We go to Vancouver and then out west to Horse Shoe Bay. The boat is in Fishermans cove a small placed packed with beautiful salty cruisers. Lots of Bayfields and such. We met the broker, got the boat oppened up and that was all it took. She sold herself to us and we to her. The story has been wonderful ever since. Caught in a gale on the way home 50+ and getting close to God. 30kts on the nose for a week. Bashing into the seas and watching them part to let Triska slide through. Spray hitting you in the face while taking your turn at the wheel. Slipping below into a warm dry cabin for a break and hot chocolate. Heading into port for the night tide secure at a visitors dock. Deep inside the warm glow of the oil lamp and the force 10 heater keep you warm as you read a copy of 48 deg north and fall asleep. The trip home takes several days and your see Point Roberts, Bellingham, Point Hudson marina at Port Townsend then on to Eagle harbor past Blake island and down Colvos pass towards Gig Harbor. Dog let east accross commencment bay and into the lee of Tacoma and home. Puting the new boat away into her new slip. People watching and admiring her lines. You fell proud or your boat and the trip you have made. Every trip since has been the same. Triska carries us onto the water and we know she can face whatever mother nature may dish out. Its was just a fluke, just a lets go and see . It only took us 9 days to sell our C-25. The hardest thing to take was knowing I would not have a boat for a while. Well thank God it was only a short while.

The Alberg 29 was built by Nye Yachts up near Hamilton Ontario Canada. Most of the group is still up there or oround the east coast. Triska was built in 1983 and had spent all but 3 years on Lake Ontario. She was trucked to the Vancouver area and spent only a few years there. She now resides in Tacoma Washington. Anyone wishing information on feaures of the boat its history or other data please feel free to contact me.

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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 03/02/2005 : 20:33:58

There's no missing it when a designer gets it 'right'... the boat looks proper from all angles... even on the hard... and Triska's simply "right".

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Douglas
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Response Posted - 03/02/2005 : 20:55:45

I must say one thing here. The Catalina sure is a great boat too. It gave myself and my family a great start. The quiality was good, the price fantastic and for seven years it took us on some wonderful adventures. I miss Wind Lass a lot. I often find I also wish I had a trailerable boat. Especialy when it takes me several days to get up into the San Juan Islands. Got to hand it to the C-25 she is one hell of a good sailboat and loads of fun.

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stampeder
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Response Posted - 03/02/2005 : 22:38:57

If you ever want to slum it in an old C25 in the San Juans again ... mine is sitting idle most of the time - I'm in Calgary and the boat is in Victoria (Esquimalt).

That goes for you other C25ers too - the trade-off would be some expertise and tweaking - I know I have all the parts and components - but it would be helpful to me to have an experienced C25er take it out for a spin and bring it back with the boom vang and the Cunningham where they're supposed to be.

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Ray Seitz
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Response Posted - 03/03/2005 : 09:50:51

Boy that Triska is nice!

I think I asked this before Douglas (sorry if I have) but did you tell me Triska was not built by Whitby? I just can't resist a Quote from Mr. Alberg.
<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Carl's own assessment agrees:

"Contrasted to the modern IOR boats where you have six gorillas sitting on the weather rail with their feet hanging outside trying to keep the boat upright, my boats are strictly family-cruising boats. In all my designs I go for comfortable accomodations and a boat you can sail upright without scaring the life out of your family or friends. I gave them a good long keel, plenty of displacement and beam, and a fair amount of sail area so they can move."

In 1979, while those modern boats were capsizing and sinking, an Alberg 35 on it's way to England comfortably lay a-hull.

"It was really blowing and though they shortened sails and did everything else they could in order to keep going, they eventually took everything off, went below, battened down the hatches and just ate, drank and played cards. When it had blown over they hoisted sail and continued to England, where they were told they had just sailed through the same gale that had taken 16 lives in the Fastnet race. They had ridden out the storm by just sitting in the cabin while everyone else was capsizing."

"There are still some designers around who whare my ideas about glass boat design. Everyone else is trying to conform to the new rules. My boats are more designed to follow the waves and stay relatively dry and stable." <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

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Douglas
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Response Posted - 03/03/2005 : 19:06:08

All of the 29s were built near Midland Ontario Canada by Nye yachts. Out of production for some time but they can still be found.

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Charlie Vick
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Response Posted - 03/03/2005 : 23:14:16

"Triska" is and always will be one of my favorite sailboats.
As soon as Doug bought her and showed her to us I fell in love.(Strange how sailboats can have that affect on us)
My plan is to buy a 28-30' sailboat after my C25 and get compfortable sailing it, then move up to one I can live on, somethng around the 45-50' range.
After seeing Doug's Alberg 29 I think I've found my next move up.
Doug, when, or if you decide to change sailboats, let me know, I'd like to be at the front of the the line.

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Douglas
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Response Posted - 03/07/2005 : 19:47:10

I will always keep my Catalina friends in mind. Projects this year New Dodger. Next New standing rig and then new sails. Thinking of hauling her home for next year to do a total refit and epoxy bottom. Ill let you know when or If I ever decide to sell.

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