Theinbaugh
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I was in my mid teens when my father, come to find out an avid sailor, asked mother if they could afford a sailboat. Being a central Illinois conference minister they barely made ends meet with 7 child's still home. Mom agreed to got to look at it and agreed to work it in the budget. They piled all of us in the Kingswood and headed to Paradise lake to see it.
When we arrived Mom inquired where the boat was as there was no boat around just a trailer. Dad smiled as we piled out of the car and said it around front. Rounding the corner of the house and expecting to see a boat Mom asked again and Dad responded, there pointing at the lake, which was across the yard. All that was to be seen was, what I learned was the last, a wood pole sticking out of the water. All Mom could say was Really?
Dad got the old mahogany plank wood hull boat home and that was the start of a fascination for a few of us.
My oldest brother Steve became very close friends with Chet Turner who built Y Flyers with his Dad Charlie. I was fortunate enough to have sailed with them early on.
1 Lightning, 1 Star, 2 Sunfish, and a Laser later, all someone else's. After the age of 80 Dad's last sailboat was sold and some 20 years later I now have a 1966 Alcort. Looked at it Friday, bought it Saturday, sailed it Sunday!
When we arrived Mom inquired where the boat was as there was no boat around just a trailer. Dad smiled as we piled out of the car and said it around front. Rounding the corner of the house and expecting to see a boat Mom asked again and Dad responded, there pointing at the lake, which was across the yard. All that was to be seen was, what I learned was the last, a wood pole sticking out of the water. All Mom could say was Really?
Dad got the old mahogany plank wood hull boat home and that was the start of a fascination for a few of us.
My oldest brother Steve became very close friends with Chet Turner who built Y Flyers with his Dad Charlie. I was fortunate enough to have sailed with them early on.
1 Lightning, 1 Star, 2 Sunfish, and a Laser later, all someone else's. After the age of 80 Dad's last sailboat was sold and some 20 years later I now have a 1966 Alcort. Looked at it Friday, bought it Saturday, sailed it Sunday!