Alsberg Brothers Boatworks was an American

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. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of

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racing

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s.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 190-191. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. The company was founded by Terry and Peter Alsberg in 1982 and went out of business in 1988. Terry Alsberg had previously worked for

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The Alsberg brothers founded their company to build the

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, one of the first designs to be built using the

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process. This boat was intended to compete with designs like the

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and the

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as an ultralight racer. Earlier designs in this class had proven fast on reaches and downwind, but did not go well to windward. Designer Carl Schumacher drew the Express 27 design and the company was formed to build it. The resulting boat became a quick commercial success and 117 were completed. Designer Schumacher explained the 27's design origins in a 1985 interview in ''Latitude 38'', "Terry and I started off with the idea of building a boat the same weight as a Moore 24, but two feet longer. But we eventually decided on the largest possible boat that could use a single speed (Barient 10) winch for the jib, which turned out to be 27 feet." The company expanded to produce two more Schumacher designs, the

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and 37, both enlarged versions of the basic Express 27 design. The company went out of business in 1988, as a result of the effects of launching the company into the 1981 and 1982 recessions, plus low pricing. Founder Terry Alsberg explained, "we'd been building custom boats and selling them at production prices". The company had completed 210 boats in six years.

Boats

Summary of boats built by Alsberg Brothers Boatworks: *

- 117 built *

- 28 built * Express 37 - 65 built

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* {{Alsberg Brothers Boatworks Alsberg Brothers Boatworks

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