11Feb21 New moon in Aquarius
Hey All,
I have begun reassembling the used basket case Sunfish I bought.
It appears to be in decent condition with a dinged bow, and it had holes for hatch covers cut already.
It came with a new Intensity racing sail, an unmounted hiking strap, hatch covers that fit the holes that are already cut, a hiking stick not mounted, a spar bag and The original red white and blue sail on the booms but missing a few of the white plastic rings.
I was asked to post some pictures so what I’ll do is chronicle the assembly and repairs as they occur.
i have mounted the traveler, it is dyneema with stainless thimbles. I called it the great pumpkin traveler. It’s bright orange.
I guess since I’m close to University of Florida this is an OK thing.
So what I did today was cut a new hatch access in the cockpit with a rotozip tool for a beckson 4”. This is so I could place a backing plate with stainless Togler 1/4-20s to mount a standard hiking strap plate At around 3” from bottom of the cockpit sole.
So today I cut the hole and I reached in to make sure the plate fit.
it’s a repurposed 1/4” epoxy saturated teak backing plate I had Hanging out.
here is a photo of the inside of the hull. ANTS ! just a few
On to make the backing Plate with threaded stainless bars ... Togglers
I cut the teak down and scratched up the epoxy coating to give the 5200 a better bite, well if that is even needed...
then drilled 1/4” holes to accept the 1/4-20 s and the hiking strap plate. I want to be able to unscrew the plate and replace a strap if needed.
Since I wouldn’t even see this, I figured that it wouldn’t hurt to use 5200 to stick the togglers to the teak board
Yummy 5200 ha ha Ha. I filled the togglers with 5200 and also bedded them down into 5200 and then looped the 5200 over the togglers themselves. This should hold them in place when I back out the machine screws if I ever need to replace the hiking strap.
I’m going to let the 5200 kick off and then pull the screws. I wrapped the threads with painters tape and was careful not to get 5200 in the screws or the threads of the togglers.
The one mistake I made was getting 1/4-20 togglers. I like them they’re heavier than the next size down. But the hiking strap plate is drilled for a number 10 machine screw. I’ll put the plate on my drill press and carefully drill them out to quarter inch no problem.
The next thing I did today was install the drain plug. I had ordered one from Intensity but it was the wrong one. I found the correct one an RWO at West Coast Sailing online, it was reasonably priced and shipped fast.
Hey All,
I have begun reassembling the used basket case Sunfish I bought.
It appears to be in decent condition with a dinged bow, and it had holes for hatch covers cut already.
It came with a new Intensity racing sail, an unmounted hiking strap, hatch covers that fit the holes that are already cut, a hiking stick not mounted, a spar bag and The original red white and blue sail on the booms but missing a few of the white plastic rings.
I was asked to post some pictures so what I’ll do is chronicle the assembly and repairs as they occur.
i have mounted the traveler, it is dyneema with stainless thimbles. I called it the great pumpkin traveler. It’s bright orange.
I guess since I’m close to University of Florida this is an OK thing.
So what I did today was cut a new hatch access in the cockpit with a rotozip tool for a beckson 4”. This is so I could place a backing plate with stainless Togler 1/4-20s to mount a standard hiking strap plate At around 3” from bottom of the cockpit sole.
So today I cut the hole and I reached in to make sure the plate fit.
it’s a repurposed 1/4” epoxy saturated teak backing plate I had Hanging out.
here is a photo of the inside of the hull. ANTS ! just a few
On to make the backing Plate with threaded stainless bars ... Togglers
I cut the teak down and scratched up the epoxy coating to give the 5200 a better bite, well if that is even needed...
then drilled 1/4” holes to accept the 1/4-20 s and the hiking strap plate. I want to be able to unscrew the plate and replace a strap if needed.
Since I wouldn’t even see this, I figured that it wouldn’t hurt to use 5200 to stick the togglers to the teak board
Yummy 5200 ha ha Ha. I filled the togglers with 5200 and also bedded them down into 5200 and then looped the 5200 over the togglers themselves. This should hold them in place when I back out the machine screws if I ever need to replace the hiking strap.
I’m going to let the 5200 kick off and then pull the screws. I wrapped the threads with painters tape and was careful not to get 5200 in the screws or the threads of the togglers.
The one mistake I made was getting 1/4-20 togglers. I like them they’re heavier than the next size down. But the hiking strap plate is drilled for a number 10 machine screw. I’ll put the plate on my drill press and carefully drill them out to quarter inch no problem.
The next thing I did today was install the drain plug. I had ordered one from Intensity but it was the wrong one. I found the correct one an RWO at West Coast Sailing online, it was reasonably priced and shipped fast.