Recent content by chaplinesq

Chris, Thanks for the reply. I appreciate the gooseneck and sheeting suggestions. Being just over a season and a half back in the boat and trying to figure out all the new ideas, rigging, etc, has been...interesting. I had my gooseneck at 23, all day Saturday. Sunday when it lightened and I...

The 2009 SF Masters was held at Lewes YC, this past weekend. All the sailors and the RC P.R.O. agreed to allow me to use the rudder and take myself out of the running for trophies. Here's what I remember. Since it had been a couple weeks since I'd sailed, my "rudder memory" was a bit...distant...

I too came back to the Sunfish. In the mid 70's (my sailing "youth," late twentys, chrono-age), Carl Knight, Derrick Fries, Dave Chapin, Dianne Harrison were at the top of the regatta spreads, and had me wondering what I didn't know. What I didn't know was that the old round bottomed...

The old old old Sunfish came with an "eyebolt and pulley" (Sunfish Bible, p. 29) atop the mast. Is that system still legal? And if so, could the pulley be added to the jens rig to allow freer line movement? If a pulley is not allowed, how about a thimble on the jens rig? Anything to keep the...

I went to the club last night, needle nosed pliers in hand, to remove the old sail and ready my spars for my soon to be arriving racing sail. Even with pliers the clips are hard to remove. I finally got the knack, which was to grasp (firmly) along the female side, next to the nub sticking...