HarryKrause wrote:
Don White wrote:

HarryKrause wrote:

Don White wrote:

Hi Nancy...nice to see you back.
Be wary of the 'JimH gang'. They look down their noses ay any
vessel less than 30 feet.
Sure will be nice to have another 'sailor' aboard.




Don:

My "first" sailboat was a Dyer dinghy, my second, a Sailfish, but my
first "real" sailboat (mainsail and jib), was one of these beauties:

http://tinyurl.com/8w9vc


From about 11 to 15 years of age, I had barrels of fun racing one in
Long Island Sound club races for kids my age.



Those little boats are lots of fun. I took my 'White Sail' course on
420's at a naval base on our harbour back in 1984.
http://www.abbottboats.com/420.htm





The 420s would have been quite exotic way back when I was attempting to
"Club race." We mostly saw Bluejays, Stars, and Lightnings. In fact
there were relatively huge fleets of these boats all over the
Connecticut side of LI Sound. My specialty was running Star sloops
aground on sandbars in Milford Harbor. The boat drew 3' or so, and I
always forgot it was a keelboat. My favorite, though, was always the
Lightning.

Flying Juniors were very popular here for small club boats in the 60's &
70's. http://www.ussailing.net/fjus/