Recent content by Dickhogg

I'd still go with an old milk jug.

I enjoyed this lovely film. Thanks for sharing. Do you not call your bow-line a 'painter' in the states?

These sails sound really cool, ...but I'm not sure I could put a diferent sail on my fish, just because the original sunfish sail is so beautiful and iconic.

Its how I do it too. Although I didn't know it was called that. Mine dont tend to be that neat as I am normally doing it in the back of a fast-moving rib after taking up all the marks after a days racing.

I like how he flakes his lines.

Click on the word Youtube near bottom right to watch it on the YT website rather than embedded here. Then you should see a big red SUBSCRIBE button just below ant to the left of the film.

A thing I love about the sunfish is that you can change the boom height like this. I have never sailed anything else where you can.

Where I sail we solo launch off a beach, often into breaking waves. This involves the boat being on the gravel and then running it into the sea and jumping on, a bit like a bobsleigh ...so we do pick up a few scratches. But it's kind of fun :^D. I can give more details if you like.

I like this thread. I didn't take it but here is the last pic of my boat.

Ease the sheet a little when you tack, but not fully. A foot or so should do it.

And if it does get caught you can flick it off with the end of your tiller extension.

I sailed yesterday too, on the english channel. I bet we had similar conditions. Also similar hats!

I launch off a shingle beach where it is impossible for the bailer to not get a lot of stick. I have lost the pins (And ball) and also completely smashed one bailer. One option for replacing the pins that I discovered is to use a zip tie like this:

When I read the title I thought it was going to be LP about them a foot longer or something. :^)

This thread is awesome. I would love to build a wooden sunfish one day.