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1st Sailboat
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 |
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