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

[salb203 at aol.com]

John,
Did you not see this video? Click on the link "See who's in the 
doghouse"

http://www.BewareoftheDoghouse.com/?watch=true

Sal


-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Chase <enrpnr at erols.com>
To: John Dilks K2TQN <oldradio at worldnet.att.net>
Cc: DVHRC <dvhrc at mailman.qth.net>; njarc at mailman.qth.net; SCARA 
Reflector <scara at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:25 pm
Subject: Re: [NJARC] WTB = Sails - or - My distraction this weekend ...










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

John Dilks K2TQN wrote:

>Just remember
>Reply = Poster
>Reply All = Everyone
>
>_________________________________________________________
>
>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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