B-L Bandit
Leeward Bound and Down
Hey there everyone.
A little about me: I'm 17 (18 in a month) love boating and i work at Sturgis Boatworks here on cape cod. Last winter I fixed up my uncles '69 sunfish, new paint parts ect. Came out great, the hull was in good condition and it sails great not to mention how awesome it looks. This summer I decided I wanted a laser so a friend gave me his that he raced with up to about 4 years ago. It is the oldest laser ive ever seem. Sail number in the 3600's. I dont know where that puts it year wise, but I'm guessing pre '76? Anyway the boat was in rough shape: Racing damage including holes in the gunrail, small spider web cracks from impacts and crummy repair work. Someone added clam cleats for the mainsheet and I can tell they just found 4 screws laying around the house and screwed them in by hand, they were horrible and i probably could have riped them out with my hand. I cleaned it up removed all the old parts and started working on it. I filled the holes using epoxies and bondo on some. The bondo works great on the spider web cracks becuase they are just shallow surface cracks. Rite now im just prepping the boat for paint, doing all the hull work. For the record I do not plan to race it, just a recreatioal boat that I'll race against fiends ect, nothing too serious. I'm sure I'll have a million questions for you guys over the course of the project. This is just sort of an intro to let you guys know what is up. I have some pictures of when i first got it and just started working on it, so here you go
A little about me: I'm 17 (18 in a month) love boating and i work at Sturgis Boatworks here on cape cod. Last winter I fixed up my uncles '69 sunfish, new paint parts ect. Came out great, the hull was in good condition and it sails great not to mention how awesome it looks. This summer I decided I wanted a laser so a friend gave me his that he raced with up to about 4 years ago. It is the oldest laser ive ever seem. Sail number in the 3600's. I dont know where that puts it year wise, but I'm guessing pre '76? Anyway the boat was in rough shape: Racing damage including holes in the gunrail, small spider web cracks from impacts and crummy repair work. Someone added clam cleats for the mainsheet and I can tell they just found 4 screws laying around the house and screwed them in by hand, they were horrible and i probably could have riped them out with my hand. I cleaned it up removed all the old parts and started working on it. I filled the holes using epoxies and bondo on some. The bondo works great on the spider web cracks becuase they are just shallow surface cracks. Rite now im just prepping the boat for paint, doing all the hull work. For the record I do not plan to race it, just a recreatioal boat that I'll race against fiends ect, nothing too serious. I'm sure I'll have a million questions for you guys over the course of the project. This is just sort of an intro to let you guys know what is up. I have some pictures of when i first got it and just started working on it, so here you go