#37
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 2:15 pm
Hi Folks. I'm new to this forum, already picked up a lot of tips and ideas just from reading, so thank you!
Yes, I've lost my mind and bought another project boat - Daysailer I, Number 37 - built in 1958. Her previous, previous owner ever so prosaically christened her as the "Hull No 37," so I guess I will believe him as there is no builders plate, only a mainsail as soft as a diaper:
Instead of builder's plate, the aft coaming has a prayer. I'm guessing I'll need it!:
So, lots of work ahead, first goal is just to get her in the water and sailing on my local lake without drowning me (more on that later). I hope you all will be kind enough to indulge me in answering some questions. I've been sailing for nearly 50 years but never a O'Day DS. I know my way around a rapidly cooking-off pot of epoxy and have made plenty of expensive sawdust, but this is still new territory for me. Any help and advice will be greatly appreciated.
Anyway, I'm off to unscrew the inscrutable on this boat (hot afternoon! I'm taking a break....) and will post more photos later to show what I'm up against.
Tom
P.S. Lower shrouds, who put lower shrouds on this thing?!? Wood cam cleats, interesting... They routed the jib sheet HOW?!? Jumper stays, those got to go! This is gonna get "fun".....
Yes, I've lost my mind and bought another project boat - Daysailer I, Number 37 - built in 1958. Her previous, previous owner ever so prosaically christened her as the "Hull No 37," so I guess I will believe him as there is no builders plate, only a mainsail as soft as a diaper:
Instead of builder's plate, the aft coaming has a prayer. I'm guessing I'll need it!:
So, lots of work ahead, first goal is just to get her in the water and sailing on my local lake without drowning me (more on that later). I hope you all will be kind enough to indulge me in answering some questions. I've been sailing for nearly 50 years but never a O'Day DS. I know my way around a rapidly cooking-off pot of epoxy and have made plenty of expensive sawdust, but this is still new territory for me. Any help and advice will be greatly appreciated.
Anyway, I'm off to unscrew the inscrutable on this boat (hot afternoon! I'm taking a break....) and will post more photos later to show what I'm up against.
Tom
P.S. Lower shrouds, who put lower shrouds on this thing?!? Wood cam cleats, interesting... They routed the jib sheet HOW?!? Jumper stays, those got to go! This is gonna get "fun".....