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  1. RyanDe

    How to land a sunfish going with the wind and no beach?

    When the wind blows towards the dock I get nervous going out because I've almost hit the boat a few times, but the wind mostly blows toward the dock, so.. I have no real place to land, to the left are rocks and the right is our boat and behind that is neighbors boats and more rocks. I tried to...
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    Best way to rig so I can raise/lower the sail on the water?

    Because I have to launch and land from a dock it would be much easier to do this without the sail up so as to not crash into any other boats on the dock. I'd prefer to paddle out 100' or so and raise everything and then lower around the same location coming in and just paddle to the dock...
  3. RyanDe

    How not to capsize while learning?

    Got my boat, learned to rig her and buying some minor accessories (bungie for dagger board, paddle, cup to bail) and now I'm planning my first adventure. The water is still cold (50-65) so I'd prefer to not go in especially since I have yet to practice recovering so what can I do to limit my...
  4. RyanDe

    If a boat has access ports were those added by an owner?

    While looking over craiglists for my first sunfish I've noticed that every boat has something unique. From what I can tell none of the older ones have access ports but I could be wrong. Some have two, some have three or one and some don't have any. Is this a good/bad sign, does the location and...

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