"Red Sails in the Sunset" The Platters - YouTubeI love that red sail!
Any idea what color the sailfish were with those colored sails? Was the entire deck, hull, etc painted a solid color? I don’t think I know anything about what kind of paint they used, etc. Do you? I’d love to re-do it as authentically as possible. The previous owner painted the entire deck with a white sanded paint, and that is coming off pretty easily right now, so I’ll sand it down.Wow she is in great shape! She looks mid to late 50s with that gooseneck and tapered aluminum spar.
The "Sailfish 14" showed up around 1952, and I think the aluminum tapered mast was late 50s, so it may have come later.
The red sails definitely should make a comeback. Alcort also sold color matched boats with yellow sails and blue sails.
Not me, but I saw that too. So true! Hahaha!i thought i had issues. haha. didnt you
[say "beware the 75 dollar sunfish"? :-}
Old thread, but as I’m in the process of getting Red, now dubbed Red Rubber Duck, ready for her new family, I’ve found no evidence anywhere of red paint having been present on either hull or deck. Do you suppose that might make this boat more likely a kit build? The family that will own her is as interested as I am in figuring out as much history about her as we can. Of course this could be a hybrid of one or more boats and such, but I really just feel like the solid red sail is original, but maybe it came to her along with original wooden spars? I do love rooting around trying to solve mysteries like this!We read that they were color matched, solid hull, solid color sail. They would have used oil based (enamel) paint and primer back then.