Recent content by grahambo

I concur with late 1960's. It looks just like my 1968 boat albeit much shinier, haha.

I've got a 1968 Sunfish I've been sailing for the last two summers and have a slightly different solution. In addition to tightening the wingnut down as much as possible, I got some advice from an old time sunfish sailor that in order to reduce the weather helm/pressure on the rudder that causes...

I would add the Soling, J22 and Opti to this list as well. I haven't been part of the sunfish class for that long, but I don't understand the obsession with making every boat at the line a carbon copy of all the others.

I've never raced Sunfish. But I grew up racing Optis, Bytes, Lasers, 420s and a few J22s and Solings, all One Design boats. I got out of sailing for a while in college and last summer I picked up a 60's Sunfish for next to nothing. I've been working on it ever since. My original plan was to get...

I had to cut mine when I installed it because it was simply to long, cutting it made it flush with the bottom of the boat.

Funny that this got brought up the same day as the mastheadsailinggear.com question since they seem to carry these...http://www.mastheadsailinggear.com/pc-19411-2527-mainsheet-hangers-pk-of-2.aspx

I bought an FX Sail this summer for a Sunfish I came into possession of. I've sailed for years and it's one of the better "non-legal" sails i've ever seen for any class of boat. I've sailed lasers, bytes, optis and 420's and these FX Sails have a better feel to them than all but the best racing...

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone out there has ever used a single place jet ski trailer to haul a sunfish around. I've been looking at a few trailers and saw an ad for a single place jet ski one. Has anyone done this? Anyone have warnings against it? Thanks.

Thanks for all the feedback, I am just about 6 feet tall so I'll try to move the halyard down when I take the boat out this weekend and hopefully that will solve the issue.

Thanks Fred. I'm just curious why the rigging guides say to tie in between the 9th and 10th sail tie. I had to tie it between 7 and 8 just to get it off the deck enough to sail and not have the boom on the deck. Any ideas how low is too low or if there's a better guide out there. Thanks.

Hi all, I recently acquired (long story) a 1964 Sunfish that's in pretty good shape. I've cleaning and bought a bunch of new parts including a sail. I took it out for a test run yesterday and I couldn't get the sail high enough off the deck to make it comfortable. I tried to move the halyard...