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I am currently far far away from my sailboat and will be for another 9 months due to work, so I can't provide pictures. I can try to answer the two questions. The lower boom of my sailboat has two blocks attached, in a similar fashion to that of a sunfish (You can see an image of the placement...

There were some flexible parts on my boat, most notable being some places on the underside of the hull. The deck fore of the coaming was only slightly flexible and this had no affect on sailing. On a day when someone besides me rigged my boat and sailed (I'm mentioning this, since I can't...

Without a bailer, the cockpit fills up very full quite quickly. The handling is changed by this extra weight, but not too badly. The inside of the boat didn't fill up and was well sealed. That was the case until the plate holding the rudder on popped out due to the strain, and I gave it a very...

Let me know if one of those changes includes a bailer in the cockpit. I also have a Star Dancer, and I learned last summer that it fills up and stays filled up with water. I am currently planning on installing a bailer, but we still have ice on our lakes, so it'll be a while yet. Due to the foam...

My boat did came with a hole for a drain plug. I believe the hole was around 3/4 in in diameter, but there were no smaller holes. I have attached a picture of where the drain plug is. If your boat doesn't have a drain plug on the transom, you may want to enlarge one of the holes into a drain...

My bro finally got around to posting some footage of sailing on my clonefish from last summer. It's not quite as quick as the Solcat 18... For reference, this clonefish is the Edo Western Corp. Star Dancer.

Just thought I'd post a few before and after pictures of my project. I think it looks a little better than when I got it ;)

I spent just about all summer in my Star Dancer, so I've gotten to know it pretty well. I'll go through what I found out about this little boat. The specs are almost exactly the same as the sunfish. Mast height is the same, spar length is the same, sail size is the same. As you can see from the...

KKS, I've been sailing this summer in a sunfish clone with a 9' mast. I received the advice on the forum that as a lighter sailor the shorter mast would be a benefit and it has. I've taken a few friends and the mast height hasn't been a problem at all with more weight. I've figured out a...

I think I'm in luck, since I'm only around 135 lbs. I'm fairly new to sunfish sailing, so I'm not sure where the halyard should attach to the top spar and how far the gooseneck should be from the forward end of the boom. I saw signal charlie's post on this thread...

I posted about my new boat a while back: http://sailingforums.com/threads/star-dancer.29497/ and I'm just getting back to working on it after a long winter. It had been noted that the mast of my boat was nine feet while the mast of a sunfish was ten feet. Sometime this winter I went to look at...

The Aquafin has a much different rudder than the one shown. If you check my first link and look at the rudder for that Scorpion, it looks like the rudder in the Craigslist posting. I am not positive this is a Scorpion rudder, but it at least looks to be the match of the rudder on the Craiglist...

I believe that this listing is a Scorpion by Pargo Inc. The rudder appears to be an original Scorpion rudder, but the daggerboard does not look like the Scorpion daggerboard. The sail is an Aquafin sail. That is an interesting boat. Here are some websites I got my info from...

Thanks. Any good websites to go for that and other sunfish parts? I don't care if they are class legal.

Thanks for the effort Blue Heron ;) I am wondering about mast diameter, because I would like a mast base cap. It would be convenient if a Sunfish mast base cap fit my mast. There is a lot of information about how and where to install inspection ports on a Sunfish. The how is useful, but I am...

The sail is done for... I believe it's a 1971 sail that was kept outside for the past 10 years or so. I talked to my local boatworks and they suggested getting a sunfish sail. As I don't have to worry about being class legal, I'll probably just get an Intensity Sunfish sail. Thanks for the...

I see I'm a bit late to post, but in case anyone is still watching this thread I recently got a Star Dancer and found the original flyer for the boat. This wasn't too helpful, but interesting to look at. http://www.msogphotosite.com/MSOG/pdfpage/stardancer.pdf

The boat is lateen rigged. I found the beam and length online, and I measured everything else myself, so the measurements should be very close, but not exact. Hull length: 165" Beam: 48" Mast height: 109" Mast diameter: 2 1/4" Boom lengths: 165" Sail dimensions. Along booms: 160", Leech: 170"...

I have sailed a Sunfish, an Aquafin and a Star Dancer. They are all fairly similar so I just said sunfish. I figured that the tacking procedure would be fairly similar for all of them.

I have had the problem in a few different boats. They have all been lateen rigged and similar to the sunfish. The first was an Aquafin and the second was the Star Dancer. The Star Dancer I sailed has very similar rudder and daggerboard to the old style sunfish rudder and daggerboard.