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

[Ray Chase]

What a romantic you are, bought your wife a new vacuum cleaner!!  
Whatever happened to flowers and bling bling??
Ray

John Dilks K2TQN wrote:

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>Hi Gang,
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>My distraction this weekend ...
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>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?)
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>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
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>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?)
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>"Not this time," I said.
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>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.)
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>That should explain everything, just in case you were wondering?
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>WTB = Does anyone have a used set of sails for sale - trade?
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>73, John Dilks, K2TQN 
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