I've got an old DS1 - call her Woodie. She is ancient. One of the ones from the 50's with wooden seats. I bought her a couple years ago.
I'd like to write this up as I don't think anyone in our little sailing club thinks I can pull this off. They have good reason, I've owned this relic for a couple years and it is so bad that she ended up in our club's boneyard with all the abandoned trailers and broken boats. I bought her with every intention to fix her up for club racing and even sailed her once, it wan't pretty. I was offered a beautiful SLI Daysailer and couldn't refuse so I bought it and "Woodie" got ignored.
Nationals is going to be in Eugene this year. I'm going to offer my SLI Daysailer to a visiting skipper and use "Woodie". This means I need to make this old relic into a National's level boat.
Here are the design parameters. I feel the old DS1's from the 50's, the ones with the wooden seats, are a good boat but have a few problems. The first one is that you can't self rescue. They have so little reserve in the buoyancy tanks that they barely float when swamped. "Woodie" is going to be a gentleman's racer, simple, fast and safe. To do this I have to modify her so she has the safety features of a SLI Daysailer but retain the charm of an older Daysailer.
First job, repair the trailer, and repack the bearings so I can roll her around. I need to figure out how to add pictures, more later.