Recent content by kebwi

That's an excellent suggestion. I hadn't seen that before but it makes perfect sense.

Thanks.

EDIT: "How big a bag" -> "How big a GAP"

I have this stuff, which I used to attach a mast cleat, drain plug, and mast-bottom-cap: https://www.lowes.com/pd/LOCTITE-Construction-Adhesive-Actual-Net-Contents-3-Fl-Oz/999901423 I realize it's far less common on this board than 3M 4200 and 5200, but I already have it. I think my old...

I suppose it isn't that far, but it felt a little intimidating to sail clear across the lake and back in such a small boat, especially with a ten-year-old squirming around as unstable ballast the whole time. HA! She likes to lie belly-down on the bow in front of the mast, which really plows the...

Here's another small tweak I made to the boat, a large-inner-diameter foam tube pad attached to the top end of the upper spar, just in case I ever topple the boat in an effort to alleviate the risk of turtling. I went with yellow to match the deck, but in hindsight, the deck is probably rarely...

I just used ordinary screws. No backing.

I just hacked the old system to work like the new system. It was super cheap. See this post for more information: https://sailingforums.com/threads/upgrades-made-to-an-old-sunfish-so-far.44009/post-205054

I've wanted to convert the old-style rudder to a modern spring-retained-rope-pulled-flip-up design, but I didn't want to perform the full rudder upgrade, primarily out of objection to the cost, but also because I'm not ready to do quite so much deconstruction to the boat. What I envisioned was...

I tried smoothing it out with thin clear plastic (a thin bag instead of saran, but whatever), but I found that it just made a big sticky mess. In the end I just smoothed it out with my gloved fingers as best as possible and relied on sanding afterwards. Admittedly, examples showing the plastic...

Here's my Marine Tex adventure. First the damage, then the initial application, and finally after sanding. I tried to sand the edges down to a perfect blend with the hull, but I was starting to buff the hull on the off-side of the edges as much as I was bringing the edges down and so I quit...

Here's my mast cleat addition and some plunky velcro straps for main sheet boom retainers, and the latest (perhaps final) incarnation of my dolly. It deploys with two screws/wingnuts to hold the three pieces together and with two unfoldings of the carpeted arms, but breaks/folds down small...

Ah, that all makes sense. Thanks.

The outhaul upgrade pulls the a line from the clew, through the eye at the end of the boom (sometimes (always?) with a double purchase by first attaching to the eye, then through the clew, and back through the eye, as opposed to a simple bowline at the clew that feeds through the eye a single...

I've also attached a mast cleat and replaced the unwindowed yellow/blue sail with an Intensity sail (windowed with greater draft, but boring white). No pics of that yet. And I have some V-cleats for the outhaul and cunningham but I haven't attached them yet. And I have the original style rudder...