The first one I owned was a Sunfish in San Diego while I
was in college. We used to sail down the cost from Del Mar
to La Jolla, pull it out and have lunch, then hitchhike back
with the boat. The first boating experience was with a toy
sailboat on a pond in the Chicago area. After that, I started
actually sailing on a lake in the Sierra Nevadas. I can't recall
what kind of dink it was.

"Joe" wrote in message
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We made it in Ft. Worth. Lived near Benbrook lake. On a Hot Hot summer
day 1967 we found a sheet of corrigated tin. Me and my friends bent
one end in to a bow shape and we scraped tar off the highway to seal
the bow seam together. The stern we just cut the tin like a comb and
bent the teeth ends up to form a stern sealed it with highway tar as
well. Made a mast from a closet rod. It was a square rigged with bed
sheet sails. Had a great time sailing the lake. Bad part was we had no
keel and could only go down wind. 1 mile sail= 3 mile walk pulling the
boat back around the lake. Between that and soapbox derby on the
spillway we stayed busy that summer!

Took 30 years for me to get my next sailboat.

And You?

Joe
MSV RedCloud