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

[Scott Roberts]

So- $200 sailboat costs $600.

Ah, ha.

Scott


--- On Mon, 3/16/09, John Dilks K2TQN <oldradio at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> From: John Dilks K2TQN <oldradio at worldnet.att.net>
> Subject: [NJARC] WTB = Sails - or - My distraction this weekend ...
> To: njarc at mailman.qth.net, "DVHRC" <dvhrc at mailman.qth.net>, "SCARA Reflector" <scara at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 6:35 PM
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> _________________________________________________________
> 
> 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 
> 
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