Recent content by baddoggoodlife

That’s an absolutely fantastic idea. I’d love to meet up and just shoot the breeze about everyone’s experience having at these little boats. Thanks for the info on the museum boats. I can only imagine what a great display could be put together of the Alcort evolution. While SC has probably...

And she’s back on topside. A few pics of all the parts having come together. So where to next… I had in mind a goal that when I got her all put back right, that I would see if I could put her on display at Mystic Seaport at the Wooden Boat show. Well, I got the good news that yes, they would...

Fantastic! Logistics is the only thing. I’m in southern Connecticut. Whereabouts in New Hampshire are you?

Inspiring shine! Make me want to have a go a polishing mine up now.

Any pictures of the framework inside the hull?

surprised that I hadn’t come across your posting when it happened. Would the sail still be available? I’m do a couple of restorations now, one for display purposes, so the sail could be useful as is.

So what do you do when your project boat is almost done? Start building a fleet. Couldn’t help but pick up this kit super sailfish from the fellow who built it himself with his brother in 1964. Mahogany sides and Masonite top and bottom. Yep, masonite! Seams leak all around, but the material...

And then the mast and spars are complete. Just need lace on a sail. Time is coming to pull her out of the basement boatwerks and put all the parts together. I left a few extra inches at the top to add a footmans loop to fly a pennant. Now I need a pennant…

With the hull all but completed, it’s time to move onto the mast build. I had presumed that the single piece aluminum mast was from a later boat, but to my surprise it appears that this was what it originally came with. Pictures of the boat from the early 50’s show the single aluminum mast...

Found the perfect pin retention chain. A toilet tank flapper valve chain saves the day.

A bit late to the party, but good on you for building a classic. That’s one of the things that I love about these boats is that they made sailing accessible for anyone with the will to put it together. For what it’s worth, my genuine Alcort Super was built with the thinnest of marine ply...

We all can keep a secret, right? I’ve created a crime against authenticity. In painting the ‘sit-spot’, I accidentally extended it an extra 12 inches back to the stern, making it 47 inches long rather than the scripted 35 from the Alcort home build plans. (Again, thanks to those who made sure...

A break in the weather has allowed for putting on a top coat of paint, hopefully good enough to be the finish coat. Now onto the spars, and the mast. Much of the spar hardware is original, in whole, or in part. One of the pulleys survives, but I haven’t been able to find a suitable...

And adding a bit of rope work to dress up the tiller extension.

There has been some discussion in the past as to whether factory built boats had markings on their components, and I have a couple of pictures to submit in that regard. What I do know is that the original owner always asserted that this was a factory built boat, and the family had no reason to...