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I put a double-wide bench seat on my 1962 Super Sailfish Mk2 so I can hike out a bit by sliding over, while still having back support and a footrest. But this made it more difficult to hold the tiller behind the seat. Alan Glos suggested trying rope steering, as in many sailing canoes like the...

Questions about (a) leakage around a rudder bolt; (b) can and should I install a new drain in the transom?; (c) where should I cut into the Sailfish deck to install inspection ports?. These are the details. (a) While working on the topside of my new-to-me 1962 Mark 2 Super Sailfish I discovered...

Looks like this. All three cross-braces are held in place by gunwhale clamps from Sailboats-to-go. The wooden foot-brace has a cam-cleat for the halyard, and a GPS speedometer on a post. I want to sit facing forward since I like to kayak-paddle as well as sail, but I also want to be able to...

Anybody have any experience with this? I'm about to try it for the first time (probably tomorrow), with my new-to-me 1962 Mark 2 Super Sailfish. I've never done SUP before. I was just surprised to realize how fast they are, when recently I was kayak-paddling my Minifish in to shore and was...

I've now test-sailed my new-to-me 1962 Super Sailfish twice, and experienced first-hand the drawbacks of the old-style rudder, including its tendency to pop loose unexpectedly when pulled far over. So now I am thinking about adapting the rudder mount to accept the new-style rudder that I...

While generally in good condition, the side-rails on my new-to-me 1962 Super Sailfish are loose and need to be re-mounted. On one side the screw-holes are entirely stripped out (seller's picture below), and on the other side the rail is also pretty wobbly by woodworking standards. I have...

I brought this home yesterday. This is the fifth boat I have carried in the back of my PT Cruiser (with the back seats removed), rather than trailer or car-top. Boat #1: 10-foot kayak. Boat #2: 11-foot canoe. Boat #3: 8-foot sailing dinghy. Boat #4: 11-foot Minifish. Boat #5...

Last Fall I bought a 1973 Minifish, as an upgrade from my aluminum sailing canoe. So far I've sailed it only a few times (a test-sail last season, and three or four times this season). The beach I launch from on Cayuga Lake is very rocky (all rocks, from gravel up to baseball-sized, no sand at...

I posted earlier about visible wear or damage around the top of my mast step (1973 Minifish), and the suggestion was to fill the gouges with thickened epoxy. That was the only potential problem I could see at that time. Since then I bought a fiber-optic endoscope ($35 on Amazon), and got a...

I finally got around to looking inside the mast step of my recently-acquired 1973 Minifish, and noticed that the inside of the mast step is gouged or worn away on both sides near the top. Is this something I should be worried about, and try to fix somehow? I've never done anything with...

This is a very basic question. I started sailing in June, with a mail-order Sailboats-to-go modular sailrig on my kayak and canoe, like so: Here the mainsheet runs through a pulley in the middle of the boom, and I sail it with one end tied to the crossbar that supports the outriggers and...

I just bought this Flying Fish sail designed to slide into a track on the mast (including the similarly tracked boom, which I plan not to use). I want to add sail rings, so I can raise and lower it with a halyard, and reef it along these nice full-length battens. Any thoughts or past...