Recent content by RogerMusser

L&VW: Thanks. That brings up something that I did not consider. The clamps that I used already had holes in a convenient place for entry of the battens, others may not. I did have to add an additional hole to attach a tether.

The yarn was attached to the battens with heat-shrink tubing on some, with Gorilla tape on others, a knot may work too. Both the tape and heat-shrink seem to work equally well. Extending about 6-inches of yarn seems to work well. Attach a short piece to line to the ring on the clamp’s handle...

I used a small drill to put a second hole at the end of the clamp’s handle, a split ring will go through that hole and a light line is attached to that to ring to prevent losing the telltale in case it was accidentally knocked from the spar. I bent the battens at a 30˚ to 45˚ angle at the point...

When I changed my windshield wiper blades I pulled the stainless steel battens out of each of the old blades. Some wiper blades have two battens and are long enough to cut in half, this gave me four pairs so that I could make four telltales. Another pair of wiper blades only had one batten. I...

There is another post on this forum by wjejr titled: Making a Sunfish Wind Indicator. I made and used several of the wind direction telltales outlined in that post. They were easy to make, install on the spar, and to use. Recently I have made some more telltales that are a little different...

Nice rigging manual, thanks. At the Lake Norman Community Sailing club we rig our daggerboards so that the rounded edge of the daggerboard is the leading edge and the more knife-like edge is the trailing edge. We attach a shock-cord leash to the top-forward hole of the daggerboard and run it...

I’m the original poster. Although the AquaFinn is in better shape than any of our club’s Sunfish I have decided not to try to persuade our club’s leader to retain the boat. From the other posters, I have decided that the AquaFinn offers no non-cosmetic advantages over our Sunfish. So, it will...

Our sailing club has 14 Sunfish boats and someone has donated an AQUA FINN. Everything seems to be good with this boat except that a metal ring, where the rudder attaches to the hull in the stern, is broken. Typically, our club sells donated boats unless they are Flying Scots or Sunfish. Does...

LVW asks: <<< Have you found any "loop" advantage to sailing in very strong (or very light) winds?>>> I've done a lot of summer-ish sailing in Sunfish for the past few years (Flying Scots the rest of the year). However, sail performance is not my expertise. I can hardly see much difference...

Our sailing club has been using the sails and have had no complaints. It is nice having sails with new windows on them. Any suggestions as to how we can maintain the clarity of the plastic windows? Especially for our winter storage. Between uses of the sails we spread out the sail with the...

I installed two of the Intensity 'Loop' sails yesterday. One sail went on a naked set of spars (sail removed in the past) and the other on spars with an old sail on it. The halyards and sheets were not on either sail sets. It was a warm and humid day so I did the work in a shady area under a...

Our sailing club just bought some of these sails, I’ll let you know how it goes with the replacement and use of the new sails with the loops.

Did you straighten the bent-up gudgeon or are you using it while bent? (A few of or gudgeons were bent a little and they worked fine, after straightening they still worked fine.) We straightened our badly-bent gudgeon and it looks good. The goal is to have it mount and unmount easily plus...

Thanks signal charlie, I got a few good suggestions already. I would guess that many of our club’s members know Tom, there are lots of connections with the two clubs.

No, signal charlie, I don’t know him.