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Old 07-05-2023, 18:22   #1
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Hello from SE Ohio

I just found this site, and wish I had done so much earlier. I am a retired land surveyor, previously living in the PNW and Alaska. Life threw us a curve ball and we ended up in SE Ohio. My sailing has been on small boats except for crewing on a couple of larger (30' +) boats.

After we moved here I saw a 12 sailboat in a neighbor's yard and asked him about it. He had always wanted to learn to sail and found it with a for sale sign, bought it and then never went any further. I traded a canoe for it, have done a bunch of work on it, but have not put it in the water in the last 15 years.The main problem is that there are no sails. It came with one jury rigged from a Hobie Cat which was in poor condition. So at present the Dragonfly sits on her trailer and gets moved every week so I can cut the grass.

I started sailing in a friend's El Toro when I was 9 or 10. In 1962 I enlisted in the Navy, got out November 1965. Moved to Alaska a year later and called it home, despite several interludes in Oregon. In Ketchikan I ordered a Folbot kit, with sail rig. It was replaced later with a Glen-L 17, which was eventually replaced by a Santana-21. Later, my wife and I bought a Catalina 27 which we sailed back up to Ketchikan from Seattle. However, we sold it later to provide funds for adopting our youngest boy and I haven't done much sailing since. We moved here in 2006 and are probably going to spend the rest of our lives here. One of my great interests is still sailing which brought me to Cruisers Forum, even if I will probably not be able to scratch that particular itch anymore.
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Welcome to the forum. Glad you found us.
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Welcome to CruisersForum!

I would suggest updating your profile with your general location and your boat make & model or “Looking” in the "Boat" category. This info shows up under your UserName in every post in the web view. Many questions are boat and/or location dependent and having these tidbits under your UserName saves answering those questions repeatedly. If you need help setting up your profile then click on this link: https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...ml#post3308797

I would happily help more if the link above is not enough.
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