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Does the ball need to have that black sleeve/condom around it?

Yes it was! Nice restoration you did there! Makes me feel like a lazy ass for not taking care of mine. :D

Wayne, your picture answered all my questions. Thanks! Now, why are the later bailer caps longer?

I can live with media giving us different spins of the same news instead of just one official version. Truth is a three edge sword after all.

So, the thread is the same, being the length of the cap the only difference between the two?

Tynwald, how about this:

Could you elaborate? I am still not picturing that in my mind.

I need to get a replacement bailer cap for my sunfish. Staring at http://www.sunfishdirect.com/sunfish.php?p=sunfish_bailer, it seems there are two different threads. I have here the old broken cap and the bailer; how can I figure out which one I have? TPI? Something else? Just go somewhere they...

How about making it more like the one from a certain movie Sub?

That looks like the port I have. The reason I wanted to tilt it is that there is not that much water, so I was hoping to give any opportunity possible for it to collect under the port. Maybe I am just paranoid... Of course, after looking at http://www.windline.net/project1.htm I see the...

Being in Florida i have to deal with the rain season right now. I would like to drain any water that is sitting inside the hull (I took the coaming off but have not done the repairs I wanted to yet. So, there is probably water getting through those screw holes). What I had in mind was: 1)...

I have to be humble and say I did not see those instructions. Thanks for showing them to me. Now I guess I need to go and get the foam and then prepare to fill it with goo. I really do not know if I will be able to turn it like that but I will give it a try. :D

I found the same to be true in FL: once you title the sunfish you need to get numbers and renew the title every year. I ended up doing it just because I wanted to have it registered to me. That said, they did not use the serial number for the boat. Instead they came up with their own numbering...

After I put one of those inspection holes (thanks to one sunfish forum member!) in my yet-to-be-sailed sunfish, I found out the foam on the left (port?) side of the mast is not only kinda loose but also tilting towards the mast on the rear. I read the how-to on gluing it back with the expandable...

Where would you place the block/etc?

Here is an update: after doing some fighting, I removed the outer screw. The inner one required a bit more loving. In fact, it took a friend holding the screwdriver pressing onto the rivet nut while I unscrewed it. We managed to get it out. Now the question is what to do next. Also, what is...

I was trying to take the coaming out of the boat so I could clean underneath it (and maybe do something about the cracks on the piece). Do you know those threaded rivets (rivet nuts?) you can insert on a sheet of aluminum? That is what they use here. Well, I was able to remove all but two of...

What is the difference between a grommet and an eyelet? In http://www.neilprydesails.com/store/sun.htm, they say their eyelets are brass. They also state those are recreational-only sails and you can get them with windows.

Recently (as in yesterday) I became the owner of a 1971 Sunfish (according to serial number). It is the first sailboat I ever had; I have a jetski but I got it for a totally different reason (and it is not what people buy them for). Anyway, it will need some cleaning and probably I should...