[NJARC] WTB = Sails - or - My distraction this weekend ...

[John Dilks K2TQN]

Hi Gang,

My distraction this weekend ...

It all started when I was young, my dad brought home a sailboat and I 
learned to sail it on the lake next to my home.  I found it was a 
chick magnet.  So when I became a teenager I bought a bigger boat, a 
"Town Class" sailboat. (I mentioned this in an early Old Radio 
column.)   What I didn't say was that I finally met a "chick" who I 
really liked, so I sold my boat and bought an engagement 
ring.  (Maybe I said this too?)

Anyway on our way home from a fasting early morning blood test on 
Saturday and a diner breakfast following that, we stopped at a yard 
sale not far from our home.  They had a 17' sailboat in the yard 
sale, with a trailer.  I bought it for $200.  Sure it needs sails and 
some minor Fiberglass work, but it was a "good deal" that I couldn't 
pass up.  It's a DS class boat by O'Day.  George O'Day learned to 
sail on a "Town Class" sailboat, like the one I used to own, and 
his/this design has many of the same features.  So I spent some time 
later on, on the Internet searching for sails and information.
http://www.daysailer.org/daysailer/08NACR/pictures/picture-18.jpg

Of course all day Saturday I had to listen to, "You'll never fix it 
up.  You'll leave it lying around in the yard like everything else 
you drag home."  etc.  (This is an earned reputation I have, for some 
reason?)

"Not this time," I said.

Then Sunday was Kiss-UP day with Sherry.  We went shopping together, 
we had lunch out, and she came home with a new $400. Hoover.  (She 
was happy with this.)

That should explain everything, just in case you were wondering?

WTB = Does anyone have a used set of sails for sale - trade?

73, John Dilks, K2TQN