On WINNIE she got 2 coats of epoxy....
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...then 2 coats of VALSPAR Ultra Oil Enamel on her hull. Whipped Apricot on the deck and bottom, Swiss Coffee on the sides. Transom stayed bright.
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We tried one solid color at first but decided she needed some contrast. We also added a rub rail.
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Hmm, maybe you can find another set of spars... make a set if necessary. Don't let this setback throw ya off course... your mission still is to get that boat up and running, aye? Good luck! I bet Signal Charlie has an extra set o' spars for sale, lol... he has enough boats, maybe he has some extra spars. Cheers!!!
ballston spa ny, upstate near saratoga springsEasy enough to make a mast. Boom is a little trickier. Table saw or Power planer to make a 4x4 8 sided. Spokeshave. Sand paper.
Where are you located?
ballston spa ny, upstate near saratoga springs
And is the whole mast bad? You might be able to use part of it. Alcort used a hybrid mast for several years, late 1950s. The bottom 4 feet or so was aluminum tube like the current mast, and the top section was wooden, tapered at the top with a sheave for the halyard.
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You mentioned Minifish, it has the same size rig as the Standard Sailfish. Here's a comparison of the Standard Sailfish rig to the Super Sailfish rig, which has the same size as the Sunfish.
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hope it heals quicklyHowzit goin', OP? I trust yer handlin' yer bidness, LOL...
Been goin' through a foot fracture on this end, which is why y'all caught a break, LOL...
No worries, it's just another injury, been there & done that before, AYE???
All be the same in a hundred years, that's for GODDAM SURE, LOL...
MAHALO, MY GOOD INTERWEBS FRIEND!!! AND CHEERS!!!
Carry on, small craft sailing brother, and know that we're in yer court, so to speak... LOL.
Even if ya have to modify 'em, I'm confident in your ability... besides, woodworking is good for the soul, lol.
That is new style rudder hardware but the wood is not Super Sailfish shape. You can adapt I suppose, you'll want to go with the spoon tip rudder blade or the current style, and those shapes are close. For the daggerboard 41 inches should be good, the original 31 inch board was way too short. Are you planning to stay with the old style hardware or adapt the new style.
If you are a wild and crazy, hair on fire sailor then go to the new style rudder. You might be the first person to ever convert to that on a wooden boat, primarily because so few people have wooden hulls. You'll need to add wooden shims on the deck and/or hull to get a vertical surface large enough to accommodate the stainless gudgeon screw holes. I guess you could drill new holes closer together, but you will be the test case and use your best judgement.
I like the look of the old style bronze on the wooden boat, and if you wont be pushing the rudder to its limits on a Super Sailfish, stay with the old style rudder assembly. Make sure that the bottom tip of the vertical hinge and the cup in the keel latch plate do not look worn, that is where a lot of slop allows the vertical plate to pop out when under load. Now IT IS supposed to pop out when the rudder hits a submerged object.
Keep in mind on the diagram below that the carriage bolt goes through the wooden transom on the Super Sailfish, it is not external like it is on the fiberglass hulls. Going through the hull helps limit side to side play on the carriage bolt, which was a problem on the fiberglass boats, and why they later added the external carriage bolt tube. Food for thought when folks start saying the the old style rudder assembly vertical hinge plate popped out all the time.
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While you are working on the hull, make sure that the holes where the previous screws for the spring plate and latch plate are cleaned out, filled with plugs and adhesive, so that the hull us watertight, and ready for new fasteners if you decide to go the old style route. FYI that area is about 1 inch thick, 1/4 inch of plywood over a solid oak 3/4 inch deck/keel longeron. No need to buy screws over 1 1/4 inch, taking into account the hardware. Buy bronze screws.
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and a table sawballston spa ny, upstate near saratoga springs
Maybe order by internet, from Home Depot?
Minimum order is, what, $45?
So... our King Cuomo in NY just closed all launches and marinas. What an idiot! Long Island and downstate don't do what they should so, upstate gets punished. Hopefully by May.