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I recently came into possession of a very nearly complete set of The Day Sailer Quarterlies, the Day Sailer Association's newsletter. I'm slowly scanning articles and posting them on my website in Adobe Acrobat format. I've only got about seven articles so far, but I hope to put new ones up at a rate of no less than one per week.
Go to:
http://www.bobhunkins.com/mt-archives/c ... icles.html
for links to the files. Eventually these will be posted to the Day Sailer Association's web site, and we may (eventually) offer them all on CD-ROM for a nominal fee.
Hope you find them useful in answering questions.

regards,
Bob Hunkins

This week's installment is:
Questions, Answers, Comments from Issue 4 of The Day Sailer. In this very early article, DSA members discuss Day Sailer Flotation, a mast trailering rig, the cruising range of The Day Sailer, stowage for the Seagull outboard motor, and a non-racer talks about how how racing makes you a better sailor.
to see all the articles I have so far, go to:
http://www.bobhunkins.com/mt-archives/c ... icles.html

Bob Hunkins (rhunkins-at-ev.net)

At the request of reader Roger, I've uploaded the first of several articles on cruising in the Day Sailer. This article is provided at my website: http://www.bobhunkins.com

This article was published in April 1964. It was written by Robert Milligan, the owner of the very first Day Sailer which he called "The One" (I wonder what ever happened to her?) Mr. Milligan lays out in great detail his arrangement of "The One" for cruising. I'm amazed at all the equipment he was able to stow aboard his Day Sailer. Hope you enjoy it.

This article, from Spring 1965 relates the month-long adventure of four men who sailed a Day Sailer for 45 days. Imagine the tight quarters and long hours! They must have been good friends! Take a look.
http://www.bobhunkins.com/mt-archives/000451.html

This weeks's article is also on cruising, it's from Issue #125. Enjoy,
Bob
http://www.bobhunkins.com/mt-archives/000460.html

Bob, if I could request. There used to be a great article about building a centerboard. There used to be a link to the article on the associations web site.
I talked to the current webmaster and he said that link was no longer active nor did he have the article. If you could dig up the article for me I would greatly appericate it as my 74 is currently land locked without a center board. Also, just a note, I would gladly pay for a cd rom collection of articles.


Collin

COLLIN CASEY (gybe-it-at-ev1.net)

Here's the location of this article which I've converted to PDF from HTML. Thanks to Dave Misunas for writing it and thanks to Frank Mangin for keeping the web file.

http://www.bobhunkins.com/mt-archives/000395.html

Correction - The article on building a centerboard is at:
http://www.bobhunkins.com/mt-archives/000464.html

Thanks Bob, as agreed I will join the fleet and this weekend I will begin building a centerboard.

Collin

COLLIN CASEY (gybe-it-at-ev1.net)

Since the Day Sailer is not allowed to have a gasket over the centerboard trunk opening, the next best thing is to narrow the centerboard truck opening to the minimum width possible.

This article, written in 1992 by Grant and Marta Day, details steps to accomplish this. I have not compared the rules that are referenced in this article with the current rules, but I think they are still applicable.
http://www.bobhunkins.com/mt-archives/CBtrunk124.pdf

I've posted two articles from late 1991 and early 1992 by Dan Duggan on tuning the Day Sailer Jib and Main sails at:
http://www.bobhunkins.com

Major hull/deck repair
This article from 1990, details repair of a hull to deck joint that failed at a chain plate. The article has several excellent photographs, which unfortunately makes the size of this file very large. (1.9 Mb)
http://www.bobhunkins.com/mt-archives/000477.html

Stern Traveller System
This article, written by Jerald Skeen of fleet 89, Eugene, Oregon in 1991, gives us a couple of good diagrams, as well as a Harken parts list for a stern traveller similar to those installed on the McLaughlin built Day Sailers.
http://www.bobhunkins.com/mt-archives/000478.html

Two new articles, I'm sorry it's been a few weeks.
The first is by Gus Heismann from 1991 about trailer tire covers.
http://www.bobhunkins.com/mt-archives/000489.html

The second is aobut centerboards, mostly:
http://www.bobhunkins.com/mt-archives/000490.html

All articles are available at:
http://www.bobhunkins.com/mt-archives/c ... icles.html

Moving toward the top of the fleet by Len Fiock.
good article on tuning tips to make your Day Sailer perform.

http://www.bobhunkins.com/mt-archives/000495.html