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    hello,do you still have hte sunfish? regards john

    hello,do you still have hte sunfish? regards john
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    $25 Sunfish-It's true! I'll Prove It!

    hi sounds like a blast,my fish is still in the shed being painted ,still it wont be long now.... have you though of fitting a drain plug low down on the transom,makes draining any water out much easier. cheers john
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    Boom Repair

    hello, sorry i mean rotate the end cap not the boom,in fact you do not even have to rotate the cap just re drill and replace the screws at 90 degrees from the torn out holes regards john
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    Boom Repair

    hello. the same thing happened to my lower boom, I simpley pushed the end cap back on then rotated it 90 degrees ,then re drilled into the fresh metal of the boom.regards john
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    Any advantage to a longer daggerboard?

    Hello. Did you build your daggar board to the modern racing daggar board length? I'm no expert, but I imagine that someone worked out that this was the optimum length of board for this boat. The old style board was 3 or 4 inches shorter. I have also wondered why the sunfish daggar board is not...
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    aps sails

    Hello all. I ordered a blue and white Sunfish sail with window from APS Sails, and it arrived in the UK 3 days later! Pretty good I thought, mind you, it took another 2 weeks and another £27 ( to UK costoms ) to get it to my house :mad:!!! I havent rigged it yet, but it looks fantastic! I wonder...
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    hello,Orangebug have you had the old sunfish on the water yet? I have not, but plan to this...

    hello,Orangebug have you had the old sunfish on the water yet? I have not, but plan to this weekend regards John
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    sunfish sailing in Great Britain

    hello,is this normal ,grown men sending pictures of there boats to each other?!!!! what the hell I think your boat looks pritty good for what you paid,shame about the top spar . try to get out on some bigger water ,its a blast . cheers john
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    sunfish sailing in Great Britain

    hello, yes the rudder was a nice surprise when i went to pick the boat up, it was still in the box! The repair to the deck seems pretty solid although, this winter i do plan to re-coat/paint the bottom of the hull,and a new sail would be nice. :)
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    sunfish sailing in Great Britain

    Heres another link to try for my sunfish photo's http://www.flickr.com/photos/25749966@N02/ this should work. John:D
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    sunfish sailing in Great Britain

    hello,ok i'll have to come clean ,my wife set up the pics and has gone to bed.i would have more chance of flying to the moon than uploading pictures onto the net :confused: will ask her to have a go tomorow. cheers john
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    sunfish sailing in Great Britain

    hello,I cant work out why you need a password,will try to send the pics to your email address and preahaps you could post them. cheers john
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    sunfish sailing in Great Britain

    Hi Nick, Been out for a sail off Portland this morning, about 10 knots....very nice. Where do you sail? hope you'll find some photos here??.... http://s74.photobucket.com/albums/i280/knittingplug/sunfish/ John
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    sunfish sailing in Great Britain

    hello all, I recently bought a sunfish (from ebay £50). I have sailed alot of differnt types of raceing dinghys and i have to say im delighted with it :) I love the simplicity of it. And even at my huge weight ( 255 lbs) the thing seems to fly in a good breeze!,Ive even had my 13yr daughter and...

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