1971 Albin Marine Ballad

The Ballad 30 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim. The hull is made from single skin polyester fibreglass, while the deck is a fibreglass-Divinicell sandwich.

The design was initially built by Albin Marine in Sweden from 1971 to 1982, with about 1,500 boats completed. After that company went out of business in 1982, the Ballard One-Design Association acquired the moulds and leased them to a number of companies, including Shipman Sweden AB and a few more boats were completed until 1998, but it is now out of production.