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I don't recall who gave me this photo, or when, but these are, or were, the molds for the Alberg30 hull. I don't know if they still exist. I was told at the time that they were not in good enough shape to lay up a hull.
Note the wheels near the gunwale. The mold could be laid on its side for laying up the glass, and could be wheeled around the factory floor.
After both halves of the hull were laid up and cured, they were connected together. I was always under the impression that they were glassed together, but it appears that, on the later boats anyway, that they were connected with syntactic foam, similar to what was used inside the rudder of the same vintage.
This photo and others of a boat under construction were contributed by Allen Rogers, who worked at Whitby Boat Works in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Here we see various other components, the inner liner, the deck, and various hatches and miscellaneous parts, to be assembled into a completed boat.
In this photo, the inner liner has been glassed into the open hull.
Here we see the liner under the cockpit, as well as the plywood bulkheads in the aft section.
Various other pieces of wooden furniture were installed before the deck was put in place.
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This Old Boat
by Don Casey
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This is the book that taught me fiberglass work. But don't let it
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I still refer to it.
Other books by Don Casey
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