Alberg 37 Yawl Mk II
some facts and also pictures of other Alberg 37s further down the page.

Alberg 37 Yawl Mk II

The ALBERG 37 #144

Manufacturer: Whitby Boat Works Ontario, Canada

Production: 1967-1988

LOA: 37'2"
LWL: 26'6"
Beam: 10'2"
Draft: 5'6"
Displacement: 16800 lb. 7,636 kg
Sail Area: 686 (yawl) sq ft
Water: 60 gal
Fuel: 35 gal
Displacement/Length: 403 (heavy);
Sail Area/ Displacement: 15.3 (low);
Ballast/Displacement: 0.39 (low);
US Sailing Screening Value: 1.6 (below 2.0 recommended for offshore sailing)
Comfort Value: 40 (high)
Active owner's association: http://www.alberg37.org




To bring home his point  on seakind design, Alberg cited the example of an Alberg 35 (very similar design but a longer fore foot) on its way to England in 1979 that encountered a fierce storm off the coast of Ireland.

"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 is another report of an A37 sailing the same storm. They were not playing cads but doing pretty well. Though it seems they suffered engine foundation damage as they motored against the wind to make windward. Which proves that you cannot force nature and also that cards and whiskey need to be on board.

Also: A 1977 hull, Good News, ended up on a Block Island, Rhode Island, beach in 1991’s Hurricane Bob and suffered only scratches. Since then, her second owner David Huck has cruised in her as far as Cuba and the southern Bahamas and praises her seakindly performance in sloppy Gulf Stream seas. This vessel that is actually built in 1975 was then sold to Ashley Walker and in 2010 to us!

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