Recent content by ColdPass

Hello folks, The drain in the bottom of my sunfish is currently too tight to loosen by hand. It's had a bit of water sit in it and I need to get it pulled to drain a bit easier. Any tips? Would spraying it with WD-40, or Liquid Wrench help out the situation? I don't want to bring out...

My neighbor has a minifish, and I have a sunfish. When both out on the lake at the same time, the sunfish seems to outdistance its little brother. They're both a lot of fun. I'd argue that there's not that much more effort to rig and sail the Sunfish. I guess the hull is heavier, but I...

Maybe you could make some sort of raft, pontoon, or bouy system that could lift the boat out of the water, but still be floating at the dock. I've seen some for larger boats. You'd still have the problem of corrosion on aluminum parts, but it might be a good fit for your situation.

:) Funny. They do look like sunfish from that angle - until you notice the scale at the bottom shows them to be about 30 feet long. That's bigger than even the Super Sunfish. Super Duper Sunfish maybe? ;)

For all of the competitions the sunfish sail is rigged low to the hull, versus the recreational rigging that has the upper boom at nearly a 45* angle and the lower boom nearly flat. The recreational rigging allows more room for two sailors and increased visibility. I'm sure that the trade off...

It's an unmolested '72. Olympic sail (the colors) and a white hull with red and blue stripes. For a 35 year old boat it's in great shape. We live on a lake that's roughly 1/4 mile by 1/4 mile square (30 acres) and wanted somthing to enjoy out on it. I've been out on the water the last two...

Thanks guys. It does have the storage compartment. I'll look for the other serial number tonight.

Hey, I've got a hull number question - Could someone help me confirm when it was made? (Maybe this isn't an actual hull number, since it's not in the form that I've seen listed in other places.) THere's a sticker that says AMF Alcort Sunfish, and above that a sticker that says NJZ - 13080 -...

Well, I just bought a sunfish. I'm picking it up tonight! I'm told that it weighs in at 125#, so I'm pretty sure I won't need to be drying it out, which is good. I certainly didn't get a steal on it, but I didn't want to forfeit an entire summer of sailing trying to save a couple hundred...