Hi, I'm David, new owner of #690 (DS-1?) near Akron Ohio. It's in operable condition with dacron sails in good shape and handy reef points on the main. Because of various life distractions I may not get it into the water this season. I'm reading through mast stepping discussion in the archives, making the trailer roadworthy and adjusted for the hull, and playing with basic rigging. Mine has a cabin top tabernacle and I can't step the mast myself inside the boat yet, though I can easily carry the mast when it's detached.
I'm age 70 now, raced & taught in assorted centerboarders at Edgewater YC in Cleveland and Ohio State U, Jr. sailing and adult, from '65-'75. I may have taught in Day Sailers somewhere in that period as well (Cleveland YC?).
I briefly worked assembling hull components of Snipes and Lightnings for Mueller Boats in Cleveland, and did the full glass hull layup of Thistles for Great Midwest in Sunbury OH, in the mid 70's.
Since then I've done non-club day sailing in my Rhodes Bantam around Columbus, several small cruiser keelboats and an El Toro I still have, in western Lake Erie, local ponds and Puget Sound tidal waters. For the past 24 years I've also been a full-time maker of Irish uilleann [bag-]pipes. You'll hear one (not mine) playing the soundtrack theme for Mel Gibson's character in "Braveheart."
I'll just be day sailing #690 inland, occasionally in bays or harbors on Lake Erie. I'm toying with later making an alternative classic gaff rig for it. The photoshopped image gives an idea. I doubt this boat can easily be made competitive even with its present official rig but I won't do anything permanent to worsen that aspect for whoever gets it next.