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Posted: **Mon Nov 03, 2008 9:35 pm**

My wife found this book the other day in our personal library. She got it for a birthday present when she was about 14, because she wanted to learn how to sail. Looks like a DSII on the cover, and there's a DSI inside in the "Daysailer" section. My sail number is 847

Nice coincidence, since that's what we've ended up with.

The book is copyright 1964 and 1974.

Posted: **Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:07 pm**

I picked it up at our library's discard sale.

Posted: **Wed Nov 05, 2008 12:28 am**

I like the price sticker!

Posted: **Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:55 pm**

Nice find.

I like the caption under the inside pic. Says the cockpit will accommodate 6-8 people. Were people smaller back then ? :lol:

Brad

Posted: **Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:25 am**

People used to have more kids... :wink:

Max I've had my boat has been 6, but half of them kids in that case. Otherwise 4.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:12 pm**

Old thread but a goody. Just noticed the DS1 sail number is only a few digits off from mine. Brad

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2011 2:39 pm**

Looking again at the cover, I note a rather interesting weight distribution in the cockpit.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:23 pm**

GreenLake wrote:Looking again at the cover, I note a rather interesting weight distribution in the cockpit.

Check out the original cover:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Small-Boat-Sail ... 0742516685

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:41 pm**

Interesting - they reproduced the cover in 74 with a DSII but faithfully re-staged the shirt colors(!), sailing angle and much of the seating positions (except the helmsman sits on the bench seat in the original).

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2011 10:26 pm**

If they restaged the cover in 2011, I suspect the passenger would be to windward, and a visibly active member of the crew.

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