Drafting The Wooden Sunfish Owners Manual, a sister book to The Sunfish Owners Manual. There will be information on the history of ALCORT and the development of the Sunfish, a derivative of the Sailfish. Inside there will be illustrated chapters on how to Buy, Rig, Sail, Maintain, Restore, Store, Transport and Sell the Woodies, including the Standard Sailfish and Super Sailfish. The Restore Chapter includes Do It Yourself pictures and step by step details on how to conduct common repairs, including deck and hull replacements and rudder conversions. Lines, full size patterns, plans and a Builders Guide are also being developed for the variety of parts, along with a series of youtube videos.
Validation of lines and plans has begun with the transom.
The first Learning Lessons are that a half pattern would be better to ensure symmetry of the transom blank, and to develop a full pattern. We still need to fine tune the patterns, find the bevel angles to allow excess material for the side planks and hull, based on a 7/8th inch thick transom blank. It would also be nice to build jigs for cutting the those bevels and keel angle.
The parts that came with the kits had some of the bevels pre cut for the stem, planks, keel and transom, but ALCORT wisely left them a little proud so they could be fine tuned on the boat as it was built.
Standard Sailfish Kit shown below to add to the confusion...
Validation of lines and plans has begun with the transom.
The first Learning Lessons are that a half pattern would be better to ensure symmetry of the transom blank, and to develop a full pattern. We still need to fine tune the patterns, find the bevel angles to allow excess material for the side planks and hull, based on a 7/8th inch thick transom blank. It would also be nice to build jigs for cutting the those bevels and keel angle.
The parts that came with the kits had some of the bevels pre cut for the stem, planks, keel and transom, but ALCORT wisely left them a little proud so they could be fine tuned on the boat as it was built.
Standard Sailfish Kit shown below to add to the confusion...