Albin stories
(date: 12-01-2009)
All your personal experience, love and griefs and all what so on more with your Albin, you can write it here. It maybe very strong stories, but it must be situated between the borders of reliables
7. Changing the Form stability of the "Chantal" an Albin 25 from Kees Hameling. 
10 years ago we wher viewing an Albin 25 at a dutch yacht broker, who told us that an Albin 25 was a sea going ship, who had no problem crossing the North Sea.
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6. A little résumé of the first journey with the Albina.
Laurence and Patrick Deschamps (France) bought in september 2007 the Albina a motorsailing model of the Albin 25. Read more.
5. A winter cover for the Albin 25
A drawing of a simple to construct and easy to remove winter cover made of 32 mm PVC pipe.
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4. A Roof window for our "Chantal"
The little canvas roof on our Albin always leaked a little bit, especially during windy and rainy weather. A new story of Kees Hamelink. Read more.
3. New bilge keels for the "Chantal" from Kees Hameling.
While sailing and fishing at anchor on the Westerschelde, the kitchen cabinets of our Albin cruiser were emptied for the umpteenth time by an 8 ft bow wave generated by a passing sea-going vessel, that caused our Albin to roll like crazy. During this roll my 77 year old dad Sam suffered a bad fall an hurt himself.
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2. Kees Hameling lost on two occasions bottom rudder bearing.
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1. The story of Kees Hameling about buildig in a Bow Thruster in the "Chantal".
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