Any DSII owners near San Antonio, TX?

[1965healy]

I've been lurking about reading posts for a month or so and was wondering if there are any other DSII owners around San Antonio, TX. I just bought a 74 DSII and was hoping there were other boats in the area. I'll probably be doing most of my sailing on Boerne City Lake just north of San Antonio since it's a "no gas" lake but still a pretty decent size lake.

[Kleanbore]

Funny you should ask, I live in San Antonio and just purchased a 1974 DS II. This is my first sailboat and I had it in the water today in Panama City, FL. I would really like to look at other DS IIs as I have a few questions.

Talk to you soon!

Kerry Klingborg

[1965healy]

This boat is my second but since the first one was about 40 years ago it may as well be the first. My schedule at work is pretty busy this time of year and the boat will more than likely be in he driveway more than it's in the water. I'm sure I'll find plenty of things that need to be done to keep me occupied and American Express happy. The cuddy needs a paint job, I need to do some wiring for navigation lights and a trolling motor, the Macgregor mast raising system needs to be installed as well as the roller furler for the jib. Lots of mods and upgrades planned. Should keep me busy all winter.

[Kleanbore]

My schedule will be busy as well, but I would like to take a look at your boat, to see the similarities and differences. In particular, I want to see the transom drains in your boat.
I just purchased my boat earlier this week from a seller on this forum in Beaufort, SC. and spent a couple days at a friend's house in Dothan, AL cleaning, fixing and rigging the boat to get the boat on the water before returning to San Antonio. We sailed yesterday in Panama City, FL in very low to no winds and there are very few things I need to do to get the boat in a condition where I can decide to go sailing and just hook it up and go.
My plans are to replace the auto bailer (it was bailing St. Andrews Bay into my boat rather than the other way around), tidy up the center board pivot (the board clunks a little against the trunk), and modify a little bit of the rigging on top of the cuddy. The boat is in great shape, but I do want to paint the inside of the cuddy, make some provisions to keep the lines and misc. gear tidy in the cuddy and do some gel coat repairs here and there. My boat still has original gel coat and I want to keep it that way.
Take care,
Kerry

[jeadstx]

I have a 76 DS2 in Dripping Springs, a little over an hour north of San Antonio. My nearest lake is Lake Travis, but it still has low lake levels so I haven't been sailing lately (most launch ramps are closed still, but levels are getting close). I need to get the boat out as I'm preparing it to sail in the Texas 200 in June of 2010. The The Texas 200 is a 5 day sail up the Texas ICW from Port Mansfield to Magnolia Beach on Matagorda Bay.

John

[1965healy]

Well so far there are 3 of us in or near to San Antonio, not quite fleet proportions yet but if we raced we'd all place somewhere in the top three!

[Kleanbore]

Great!
We should exchange emails off the forum so we can get together and sail the boats. Now, how do we send private messages through the forum?

Take care,
Kerry

[Kleanbore]

Canyon Lake is now only 2 1/2 feet below normal pool and looking good! We need to organize a day for us to all meet and get the DS II's out soon!

[jeadstx]

Lake Travis is up too. Wouldn't mind getting out on Canyon Lake tho. I need to get out, I have new stays that need adjusting (and stretching). I would like to get out sailing soon, when the weather decides to cooperate a little.

John

[1965healy]

My schedule is sooooo terrible, the next days off I have will be the last weekend in March. I am a driveway sailor right now, I sit in my pretty little sailboat and make believe I'm on the lake. Getting a lot of little things done to the boat in between rain showers. New 60" transom mounted mast crutch from Intensity Sails to get the mast up above horizontal to make stepping easier; it mounts to the gudgeons. Installed a modified Macgregor Mast Raising System with baby stays that keep the mast vertical and make stepping it a breeze. Teak hand rails for the cuddy top just arrived via UPS. Waiting on a jib furler from Annapolis Performance. The interior of the cuddy needs paint but its just been too wet to even attempt it. My brother is shipping me my Dads old British Seagull outboard that he just finished rebuilding, sweet. I guess I could hook up a rope to the nose wheel on the trailer so I can steer it, raise the sails and do donuts in an empty parking lot.

[Kleanbore]

Gudgeon mounted mast support from Intensity Sails? I must have missed that one on the website. That is a project I was drawing out plans to make. Can you shoot us a link to it?

Thanks!

[1965healy]

http://www.intensitysails.com/adtrmomast.html
not sure how to post a link, hope this works.

I checked and the link works. The pins that it ships with are HUGE, I went to Lowes and got smaller bolts that fit in the gudgeons and using some fender washers swapped them out. Put some shrink tubing over the threads. I got the 60" one to get the mast up high enough to make stepping it easier. I won't trailer it with the 60" on, just slip it on when I get to the parking lot at the ramp and get ready to step the mast. You could probably mount a couple of eye bolts to the transom and use the existing pins but I didn't want to drill the transom for something that will only be used for a couple of minutes.

[jeadstx]

I made a taller version of the mast support that came with my boat when I bought it. It looked like a good design, so when I made a new one I copied the old one except made it taller to aid in mast raising. Initially I made it a little too tall and shortened it some. The other reason I like this mast support is it doesn't put strain on the rudder gudgions.

Picture of it is located at http://s445.photobucket.com/albums/qq17 ... G_0948.jpg

There are other pictures of my boat with it also. The picture with my Jeep Commader shows the final length I cut it to. For me, it works well for mast raising.

John

[Kleanbore]

Would the 33" tall mast support from Intensity Sails be tall enough to step the mast and keep it from hitting the cuddy roof? I completed my project of replacing the tabernacle assembly on my boat. The epoxy is curing, I travel next weekend and plan to sail on the 14th. I want to order the mast support, as I do not have time to make one right now. My boat sits in a storage yard with a cover on it and I want to store and trailer the boat with the mast on front and rear crutches with the cover on. I might trailer with the cover off, but, since it is made from Top Gun material it should trailer with the cover just fine.
I like the looks of the Intensity Sails mast support, as it looks like I can add a couple wings/brackets at the top to take some of the load off the gudgeons and still be able to use the cover.
Take care,
Kerry

[1965healy]

Not sure what your trailer looks like. mine has a support for the mast in the front that sits about 22" above the bow of the boat or about 7' above the ground. The mast support I got from Intensity Sails is the 60" and it makes the mast run about parallel above and along the length of the boat. It puts the mast tip about 30 degrees above the cuddy top when the mast is inserted in the tabernacle. I got that height mast support so that my 60 y/o body wouldn't have to hoist the mast very high to step it. I'm guessing that half that height in the mast support would give you about 15 degrees.

I won't trailer it with the 60" support, it would be waaaay too wobbly, although I guess I could rig a couple of supports from the cleats on the rear coamings to support it. The one I use to trailer it is only about 24" and holds both the mast and the boom. The guy I bought the boat from made that mast crutch and it works great to trailer with, very sturdy. I'll just remove that one and install the 60" to step the mast. Once the mast is up the 60" can be removed and locked to the trailer until it's time to unstep the mast.

I hadn't considered trailering it with a cover on simply because I don't own one and use a tarp to cover mine while it's in the driveway. A cover would be nice but I always have visions of them flying off while going down the road. PM me your e-mail address and I'll send you some pix tomorrow via e-mail since trying to post a photo on this site is like trying to tap dance on the head of a pin.