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    West Region Championship Regatta

    Just wanted to remind West Region Sunfish owners of the Championship Regatta being held this weekend (Sat. & Sun.) at Scotts Flat Lake, Nevada City, CA 95959 To race, you must hold a Sunfish membership, which can be arranged on site prior to the start of the first race. Camping at the lake...
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    Can't find small leak

    Look under the title Search above. Enter Leaks. I find my leaks by using the air method. Use a hairdryer on cool instead of a vacum. The vacum puts out a very large volume of air and will literally pop the seams. A scary sound. I like to go to the dollar store and buy the plastic...
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    Sunfish dagger board and mast

    Where do you live? The mast may be too expensive to ship. Our YC has some used ones.
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    Help...sail cleaning..decal transferred on sail

    I forgot to tell you to go to our website at www.gcyc.net and at the top click on Junior Sailing. In the picture titled "Valentine" you can see my boat #7 being used during a Jr. Sailing program with the blob Sunfish and it's runny stains. I tried the different soaps and it wouldn't stop the...
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    My sunfish project

    As said earlier, you will destroy your Sunfish if you try to separate the top from the hull. We have 8 Sunfish in our Junior Sailing Program as old as the early 60 to as late as 1980. They were all hand me downs from other yacht club junior programs. We fixed them up to make them sailable put...
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    Help...sail cleaning..decal transferred on sail

    Hi, I had the same problem. I contacted several sailmakers and they gave me all kinds of chemical possibilities but it didn't work entirely. Just left a dull black smudge. My black sunfish ran so bad it was all over the spars, as well as two other sections of the sail. I found out that some...
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    need to ship SUnfish to Hawaii

    United Airlines Sailing Club had many members in Calif. (Pilots) who would always take their Sunfish along to Hawaii. If you can get ahold of one of them maybe they could give you some good advice.
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    Daggerboard repair?

    I just joined the forum today and I also teach junior sailing on Sunfish. We have two of the boards you describe with the same problem. Looks like "JAWS" had been in our freshwater lake. I'm looking forward to learning much more about the care and maintenance of our eight Sunfish.
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    What is this?

    Don't always count on seeing the serial number on the stern. Sometimes the boat gets painted over and maybe more than once and then the numbers disappear.
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    Minifish inspection ports-waterlogged hulls

    Don't! remove the foam. It's there for structural support and keeps the boat stiff insteady of wiggly. A 4" port either side as far back on the bow would be your best bet. I added a drain hole and plug to starboard on the stern so the boat can be stored upright and drain. It also works well...

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