Recent content by Petrel

Thanks for the how to vid. Nice job. Better not leave that ladder at home ;)

Fiorefish, I hope you've found a work around by now. Maybe your tale of woe and the comments from others have saved me a good cry. I have a punker-banger SF that I bought years ago with fiberglass patches all over the bottom and an old style rudder. I was going to use this for salt water...

Wow! Lovely! Thank you for showing her to us. Now I would like to borrow her... Well, then, maybe a video with audio (I love the sound of a wooden hull, waves). Can you send an attachment to the FRAGRANCE folder? Lucky you. Nice photos.

Thanks, Wavedancer, Minifish2, and Pat75. Wavedancer, I went to look at that foam. I sure looks like great stuff and unlikely to mash down like the yoga matt foam I was thinking of using. I looked at all the padded sailing shorts at APS and elsewhere. I spotted some (kinda ugly ones) on...

Hi guys, Does anyone have a pattern for making their own padded sailing or "technical" shorts? Or can you tell me the type of foam padding used? Polyester foam? rubber? The thickness? Last week I went out on our local pond in a nice breeze with moderately stiff gusts. I was such a blast...

Oh, boy! Thanks Pat75 and Doug. Finally the weather is cooler, so I hope I can work on boats (then the house painting and the roof re-shingling -- the list only stop when the undertaker is paid). Doug, I will go back and review the video, because even though I have watched it four or five...

I loved that video. I have wondered how that would work. A few weeks ago, my husband had the SF and I was in a kayak -- offering to tow the FISH because there was no wind on the lee shore where the launch site was located.

Thanks so much, Pat75. I will save the 6" ones for my Daysailer and put the 5" Laser deckplates in the new bargain SF. I'll place them according to the Windline net directions unless someone has a better idea. I love this forum and after reading here or on the other SF forum about the...

Thanks Doug and Pat75. Pat75: great idea. No money for it now, but I sure like the item and will keep it on my got to get someday list. Doug, how can you STAND that horrid humidity?! I go bonkers just in interior New England. Lately we have had very humid weather and warm temps so it is...

Funny story. But, I wonder, if those kids be “traumatized” so severely that they'll be like some of my women friends and HATE the idea of sailing. LOL. If the adults display confidence and control and a sense of humor, while at the same time giving some recognition of the young ones' shock...

Your fish looks great and I'm happy that you are enjoying it. You sail is very nice looking. I was out that same late afternoon and evening, sailing in moonlight before having to paddle back in at the lee shore where the boat ramp is located. If there is wind, I love sailing at dusk. Those...

I haven't done this, YET. I need to find my other cleats. BTW, would "Walmart" or other nylon like? cleats work as well as marine shop? And, Geophiz, how did you get the hardware store line through the pool noodles? The hole in the noodles we bought is only about 1/2 inch in diameter. When...

Thanks so much BB and Doug. BB, glad that the warping isn't anything to worry about. Yep, the price was right and it looks in decent shape. And yes, Doug, that was your excellent video that I was referring to. I only hope to be able to somewhat approximate your excellent job. You make it...

Thanks, BB. I will post more photos now that I have them off my phone. I'm not sure that the warping shows up all that well, and perhaps it isn't very significant (which is good). I can feel and see that the foredeck is misshapen, but I hope it doesn't indicate that there is real trouble...

A few days ago, I got a pre-71 Sunfish that had been stored, unwanted on it's side next to a fence for a couple of years. Old style rudder intact (it appears, even with top bronze piece and pin). The mast was missing (I have a spare), and the hull has a crack along the keel, forward of the db...