Tucacas
New Member
Hi everybody, I am new to the forum and new to sailing. I just finished helping a 70 year old neighbor lady get rid of junk (filled her a 10 ton dumpster). She is just getting ready to move to FL. She is a beautiful person and I wish her the best. Well, after I got done (2 weeks later) she asked me if I could please go to a Storage Unit she had and retrieve a dinghy her late husband had. Spoke a lot about it and she had good memories of it. She originally wanted to put it in the dumpster as well, but instead decided to gift it to me as a token of appreciation for the free help. Well, I have never sailed myself as a skipper, I have only been a crew member (20 years ago when I came to MN from Venezuela). So, I decided, I will give it a try fixing it up, learn how to navigate and eventually take my wife and 2 young daughters sailing. - I can't find anywhere on the internet anything with the exact same shape, length, and/or make "Sundowner SSI" on it. It seems to me it looks like an early Contender. I would like to know because it needs some parts replaced, I want to know what to look for. I couldn't find a hull serial anywhere on it. The last registration it had in MN was to navigate for the years 1978-1980. Could anyone please shine some light? I will appreciate that. Here are the pictures I took. Thank you, Gracias!