Recent content by bluejester0b

Well thanks for all the advice, I might still pick up a new daggerboard but I think I figured out at least part of my issues after this past weekend's sail on the bay. I put the damn daggerboard in backwards on that calm day, that is, the longer straight edge towards the bow. I still might pick...

I have the "shadow board" which I think is what it should have for a late 70s fiberglass fish right?

I can't remember the exact date, but safe to say mid to late 70s. Still has the old style hull, AMF Alcort is the labeled manufacturer. Thing was at my grandparents down on Long Island. You're right I'm still using the OEM wood tiller and daggerboard.

Do you mean hanging at the far end of the boom, or midlength. I like the north end of the bay, it's so hard to launch from west bay park with the gravel and the tiny parking area.

I don't have telltales or indicators yet, just getting the boat back on the water after about 15 years of hiatus. I'm looking into the RCC, though the almost $800 joining fee is a big pill to swallow, compounded by the fact I turned 30 about 3 weeks ago!

Howdy y'all. First time out this summer on Irondiquoit Bay in Rochester I found myself in a near total calm, sail barely flapping, but I was moving diagonally, almost damn near sideways to port. Can someone help explain what I was doing wrong? My daggerboard was fully down, tiller amidships, or...

I don't have any pictures handy I'll have to run out to the shed where I keep it later. It's a mid 70s, metal gunwales, AMF built, I believe that vintage has the wood blocks but I'm not certain if they are rotten. If I understand the logic of the fix, it's taking epoxy to fill in the holes...

Ah sorry to be imprecise, I lost my OEM halyard cleat on the deck, and was planning to install a new cleat on the mast to take the load of the rigging, then try to fill in the deck cleat holes with some epoxy and remount the cleat there to keep the mast in place in event of capsize. So it...

Sorry to necro this, but late last season my halyard cleat gave way in the middle of Irondiquoit bay. Tag, looking at your pictures and write up is there anything on the inside of the mast holding the screws in? No nuts or anything keeping the bolts from ripping out?