We met Pauline from Windbag Company of NS, at the Toronto Boat show a couple of years ago. The company makes all sorts of bags from old sails. When we had a new headsail made in 2013, we donated the old one to Pauline when she came to the 2014 boat show. In exchange for the sail, she gave us a choice of bag, and we had a duffle bag made with one of the numbers from our sail. Bags made with donated sails have a tag attached with a brief history of the boat the sail comes from, which is how David was able to contact Ed.
Firmly in the 'small world' category, David's brother Jeff also sails a C&C 38 Landfall, and Ed and Jeff had previously exchanged e-mails though the C&C listserv, and Ed had followed Masala's blog on its travels.