Recent content by baseman

I built a dolly from Tag's design. I no longer have the boat but I still have the dolly. If anyone in New Hampshire wants it, make me an offer. If you want a picture I can post one. I didn't paint it so it is not as nice looking as Tag's but it works.

The only Scorpion part I have left is the DePersia metal bailer and based on another thread I have a pretty good idea of what people think of those. (I was saving it if I ever needed it for another boat I don have any more).

The race cut sail I bought in 2012 had a Sunfish logo.

There should be a clip on the rudder head that locks the rudder to the gudgeon. I don't have my Phantom any more or I would take a picture.

Shouldn't I have all of this and.....

Two things. OK three(or so) Thanks LVW for thinking of me. I don't have room for any more boats, I don't have any way to transport them, and I don't need any more project boats. Plus I'm not sure I want to talk to anyone that says that one of the boats has a rutter.

First (and only) time I beat Lightnings to the windward mark.

Keep the boat. My wife is not a sailor but she has been out with me a few times on my sunfish clone. We bought an O'Day Daysailer so she could sail with me. It needs work, so we haven't sailed it yet. I haven't sailed much in the last 3 years, but 3 years ago I was hospitalized with a ruptured...

BB, good point. Sounds like paddling out of the mooring field before the sail is raised is the best option.

I've run into similar issues but fortunately, the lake I sail on has a boat ramp that is in a channel (no wake zone). This allows me to get away from shore, raise the sail and head for the middle of the lake before the wakes are an issue. If you can point the bow into the waves (regardless of...

I made my own handles several years ago. I used two slices of mahogany decking and fashioned the curved part with a sander.

I use a Sunfish sail on the Viking (but I'm using the Phantom spars). The DePersia bailer is the same design that was used on the Scorpion (the cap is not trheaded)

I've never owned a Sunfish, but I have owned a Phantom, a Scorpion and I now own a Viking. The website says The Phantom was one of the most popular sailboats ever produced. I'm not sure I believe that. The only thing I still use from the Phantom is the eye strap on the upper boom to hold the...

Wavedancer, that sounds about right. I was thinking I lost about an inch of depth, but I don't think it will matter.

LVW, Nice to be back (and that's a long story. Not going there). Measuring the mark on the mast might help, but I'm really looking for the actual depth from the deck to the bottom of the hull.