by Bob Hunkins » Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:32 pm
There's a lot of messages on these boards about determining when boats were made. There's also a chart on the front page that lists which class numbers were built by which builder.
Here's a few ways to to tell a DSI from a DSII, unless someone radically modified the boat.
If the boat has a bronze handle to control the centerboard, it's a Day Sailer I. If it has a rope to raise and lower the centerboard it's a DS II.
If there is a deck at the stern of the boat that is perhaps the distance form an adult's finger tips to the elbow in width (give or take a hand's breadth), It's a DS I. If instead of that deck there's a 1-3" wide lip, it's a DS II.
If it was made in the 70's and has a door in the cuddy opening instead of a wide open cuddy, it's a DS II.
On the sides of the cuddy there are plastic plates attached with the O'Day Logo on them. On the bottom of the plate it will say either "Day Sailer", "Day Sailer I", or "Day Sailer II".
One of these methods should work.