A good suggestion I saw somewhere on this forum is to place a piece of sandpaper on the mast with the abrasive facing out. Carefully rub the cleat base against the sandpaper to make it more perfectly mate with the radius of the mast.
There was also some discussion about fasteners...
I just wanted to thank everyone for all the great suggestions! I got a look at the serial number and it's an '83. I ordered a mast cleat and an inspection port and a bunch of other things from Intensity Sails. Looking forward to checking her over and putting her in the water soon.
So I wouldn't have the mast sleeve, but if I did then I wouldn't want to turn the mast over -- unless the sleeve can be pulled out and moved to the other end.
The inspection port is another good suggestion. I'm not aware of the interior mast sleeve. Will it be visible when I pull the caps off?
I feel a bit like some folks I've known that just get in and turn the key on their vehicle, expecting it to work every time without maintenance. I've...
Thanks! Those are all good suggestions. Like you, I'm just sailing for fun and am looking for reliability. I'll gladly spend the extra cash to upgrade wherever possible with no regulations to worry about. Most of my concern has to do with not being able to inspect problem areas.
On this...
I've been sailing my Sunfish on Lake Ontario for about 15 years, often in very rough conditions, so my boat has taken a good pounding. I am conscious of the stresses on the mast and the cleats and in reading the forum I was alarmed to learn that the cleats are backed up by wooden blocks. Based...
I designed the ramp in picture 1 to work on my old property that had a concrete breakwall about 4' above the lake, with the top of the breakwall level with the lawn. In the photo, the ramp is sitting it on the back of my truck to simulate the breakwall, though the truck is about a foot lower...
That's not a bad idea, but I cannot drive a pipe into the shoreline. The bottom of the lake is solid shale and the DEC does not take kindly to that sort of thing.
No dock at this point. At another location we had a 4' breakwall where I was using rails I made out of 16' 2x4, with black plastic sprinkler pipe screwed to the top as slides. The rails had Harbor Freight 8" wheels mounted to the end and designed for dual use. They allowed me to pick up one...
I can't use a davit hoist because I have no place to put the davit. The hoist (lift?) that I'm considering is a stand-alone 4 post frame that sits on the bottom in ~4' of water. Typically they have 2 cables and straps that the boat hangs in. They are commonly used for motorboats and are the...
I have a house on Lake Ontario with a similar problem -- rip-rap consisting of large boulders and a steep high bank. Mooring is out of the question on the unprotected shores of Lake Ontario, so a boat hoist is about the only solution that I can see for my situation. However, I've never seen a...
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