Odyssey 30 by Alberg

Description

The Odyssey 30 (by Alberg, also known as Alberg Odyssey 30) is a classic American heavy-displacement, fin-keel fractional sloop (some examples rigged as yawls for family cruising or MORC racing compliance) designed by Carl Alberg (the influential Swedish-born naval architect famous for timeless fiberglass-era designs like the Pearson Triton, Alberg 30/35, and Cape Dory series, emphasizing seaworthiness, moderate proportions, and elegant lines from the late 1950s); built locally in the San Francisco Bay area (specific small yard or group builds, not a major factory production) starting in 1960 (with some hulls completed into the 1960s, including at least one noted 1969 yawl example); quantity manufactured is very low—only 15 hulls completed (a limited run for a group of local sailors, making it a rare prototype-like design that influenced Alberg's later, more prolific Alberg 30 of 1962, from which it borrowed many elements but retained heavier specs and external lead ballast for better stability in heavy Pacific/San Francisco Bay conditions).