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I am trying to keep my '67 afloat... just ordered inspection ports, Harken 016 and spring, eyebolt, bow handle (cracked at the screws last year with just a moderate tug), a new old-style bridle (gave way while on vacation last year, made one with plastic coated cable and wire clamps from the...

I checked the Mike Kilpatrick photo at http://mikekilpatrick.homestead.com/sunfish3.html... if the block for my rudder deckplate comes apart or off with a tug, as did the main cleat block in his photo, guess I'm in for the longer repair.

Thanks for the advice. I hadn't yet gotten to the possibility of setting screws into an expoxy filler in the existing block (I assume the Sailing Texas article is along those lines). Might be a good thing to try first as it's less labor intensive and less invasive: "If it isn't broke..." I...

sailorf2... Sorry... that 280 lbs was a typo. It's more like 180, but that's still 50+ lbs of water soaked into the internal hull parts (and that's AFTER I used those tiny drain plugs on the old pre-AMF Alcort boats!). If it was 280 lbs, I'd probably be hearing a heck of a lot of water...

I keep putting longer and longer screws in the bronze rudder / tiller deck plate of my c. 1968 Sunfish. There's been plenty of water in the hull and I assume the teak wood block that the screws go into has been slowly rotting away. I also assume that at one point I won't be able to get screws...

After 40 years in the family, it's finally time to put in inspection ports to dry out my fat (280 lb) Sunfish in preparation for painting Van Gogh's Starry Night on the deck (my daughter's request, but I think it'll be pretty cool). So, apart from color theory and mixing, I'm hoping to find...