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Since I am a casual sailor and never competitive, I would like to see a version that is amenable to carrying more people (and big guys like myself). Not a replacement for the design probably. Instead, a whole new design.

Make sure you replace the wood blocks inside the hull with rot-resistant wood, like Wolmanized lumber or perhaps even better would be manufactured lumber (made of recycled plastic and sawdust). Do the best you can removing the foam blocks and the "adhesive" foam. My experience is that the...

I got a super porpoise back in the early 90s (the SP was from the 70s I think). I heavily modified that hull and eventually scrapped it and got a Sunfish hull about 4 years ago. Anyway, I kept the mast, spars and sail, as well as the daggerboard and rudder, which I use on the sunfish now. I...

My first boat was a 14' Porpoise and I hear you about the lack of comfort. I did use a boat cushion and sit in the footwell. Actually, I still have the spars and sail from that, which I use on my "real" sunfish today, and they are wooden and fair a bit bigger than sour typical sunfish sail.

I have an elderly Sunfish (early '70s or older I'm guessing) that has been rode hard and put up wet, if I can borrow a cowboy phrase. I've been sailing it at my father's lake for several years, and it has spent some time sunk next to the dock, totally submerged. In the past I have successfully...