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Set the hull upside down on a set of saw horses before you remove the screws, that way the block will not fall into the hull.

I know this was posted a while back but have you weighed your boat? I am willing to bet the foam has gotten waterlogged over the past 43 years which is the reason it is so humid in there. The best way to fix that problem is to put it in the garage this winter and hang a 40 watt incandescent...

Or set the boat upside down on saw horses and let gravity keep the backing blocks in place when you remove the screws.

Yep, looks like someone bought the plastic gudgeon and fabricated a rudder blade and daggerboard to their own design.

Join the club, I get threatened with bodily harm every time I drag another project boat home.

When you replace the bow handle set the boat upside down on a set of saw horses before you unscrew the old one, and install the new one with it upside down, that way if the wood backing block has come loose from the under side of the deck it won't fall down into the hull. Same deal if you are...

After you get the water that is sloshing around drained out weigh the hull. If it has that much water in it the foam has probably soaked some of it up and it will be heavy.

Yes, I wet sanded between coats with a 3M 220 sanding sponge. It has two coats of the primer and two coats of topside.

No, not really looking for a boat I already have too many but $80 for a 2002 Sunfish hull is just too good of a deal to pass up, especially since one of my friends recently gave me the rudder, daggerboard, spars, coaming, and a sail off his fish that a tree fell on during hurricane Sandy. I was...

I noticed you are in VA, do you know if this Sunfish hull is still for sale?

Paint it. This is a 1978 Sunfish hull I painted with Rustoleum topside Oyster white (rolled and tipped) over the Rustoleum high build primer. If you put a couple of coats of high build primer on it those tiny spider cracks will disappear.

In the first picture it looks like it may have some gelcoat damage possibly a hole in the hull along the chine just above the trailer fender. Not a problem to fix if you know how to work with fiberglass but if you take it to a boat yard to have it fixed it will cost you more $$$ than the whole...

I bought one of those things from Intensity and the mainsheet came loose EVERY SINGLE TIME I went sailing. The gate spring just is not strong enough for that application. I found a bronze one that looks like the original that came with Sunfishes back in the 1970s at the local hardware store and...

It is probably worth far more to you than it would be to anyone else since it belonged to your dad. You might get 3-400 bucks for that rig, IF you can find somebody who wants an old Sailfish. They were never as popular as the Sunfish and still aren't but they are a lot of fun to sail. As far as...

Alcort very likely sourced the handles from perko

The wind from a thunderstorm this evening lifted my 1978 fish that I just restored this spring off my floating dock and slammed it into a piling. I had it tied down and and it ripped the halyard cleat off the boat. Not sure if it is fixable yet or not It was about dark when it happened, but...

The three loop bridle I ordered from West Coast Sailing was builder supplied. It had the Laser Performance logo on the packaging and said it was a Sunfish class legal part. Who knows, maybe it was an new old stock part that was manufactured before the class rules changed.

I just replaced mine with a new old style bridle from West Coast Sailing. http://www.westcoastsailing.net/default/boat-parts/sunfish/parts-fittings/91056.html It is identical to the very corroded original that was on my 1978 Sunfish.

"Whose going to catch the COK?" ROFLMAO

Why bother to remove it? Just put some masking tape around it to protect it during refinishing? If you go beating on it with a hammer you are probably going to crack your rudder blade.