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Wow nice shop. Sounds like a great adventure, let us know how it goes.

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I will find out.

My wife got me this T shirt for my birthday yesterday:

It depends on which resource you are more willing to part with - time or money. Sailboats and powerboats have different appetites.

It's natural state of buoyancy would be keel pointing at the sky.

Picked one up today. Thanks tag!

Ya it's a bit off but who cares? Boat building is carpentry that allows for plenty of room for error. That Sunfish is awesome! An original without a sunburn!

OMG I am dumb. My latitude is 44 degrees N. My longitude is 80 degrees W. Sorry. And I have the exact same Ryobi drill, I've had it for about 18 years, it's on it's 3rd or 4th set of batteries. It also has a sight bubble on the back end for drilling straight down.

L&V: My apologies for leading you down a bumpy path. All of my hobbies require temps of at least 70 degrees F. My latitude is 80 degrees N, therefore 100% of my free time from October through April is spent on TV sports and Google. So there. Back to topic: Although a ball peen hammer cannot...

I've spent the last 30 years fixing cars and have amassed quite a array of high quality tools. If I could keep only one it would be this:

Wow. Sunfish is a new hobby for me, so I haven't seen them all. But that has to be the most beautiful specimen ever. It's likely sold by now, someone sure has a mobile piece of furniture to be proud of.

Seems impossible, especially with several layers of profit for the distribution. I paid $80.00 for a single 3/8" Mac ratchet 30 years ago. It's on it's 3rd or 4th set of gears and I use it almost every day. I expect that it will last my remaining days. Now to get closer to the topic at hand - I...

I find that a Sunfish hull is fairly soft. I wouldn't use any type of bunks on a road trailer unless they are positioned right under the chines and the road was ultra smooth. It looks like Alan's trailers in the pics above would spread the load sufficiently with soft springs. Retrofitting...

Light: I agree that there is still pull on the deck, but it seems to be greatly reduced. In the original configuration, the halyard is driving the solid mast down into the hole and simultaneously pulling up on the deck fairlead. I still now have pull on the fairlead, but it somehow feels much...

Shoes? Bare feet are easy to clean and they dry fast.

You guys are freaking me out. I am a new sailor and I just assumed that the way to raise and lower a wooden rudder is just to push the tiller back to put it down and yank forward to bring it up. Am I damaging the wood?!? I wouldn't know how else to launch/land on a gravelly shore.

I added a mast cleat this past weekend. Used this pop rivet Hobie kit: http://www.murrays.com/01-1019.html Before installing, I wrapped some 80-grit sandpaper around a pipe to shape the mounting surface of the cleat so that it will sit securely on the mast. It works awesome. I was always...