One of our best regular features covers the great number of glassfibre classics that are out there.
It’s written by Federico Nardi, of Cantiere Navale dell’Argentario, in Italy and he knows his boats! (Translation is by the photographer James Robinson Taylor.)
We’ve done 12 of them now and there are more to come. One of our favourites – but these are all great, great seaboats, is the Alberg 35: there was one at sea in the Western Approaches during the Fastnet weather bomb in 1979. According to Carl Alberg, the designer, the crew carried on as long as they could and then went below and ate, drank and played cards. When it was over they hoisted sail and carried on to England, where they discovered that same storm had just claimed 18 lives.
This was Señor Nardi’s feature in May 2016.
Alberg 35 Brochure