A few years back we bought a lake house in the Adirondacks with a boathouse. In the boathouse was a Sunfish sailboat with a broken bailer and other problems. The sail has a 5 digit number on it: 33539. Out of curiosity I’ve searched the web to see what I can learn about the approximate date of the sail and maybe even a person’s name. Is there a place I can go to lookup this number?
About the Sunfish. My guess is that its a 1971.5. It has bronze hardware, mahogany daggerboard, rudder and tiller. It has stickers that are AMF Sunfish Alcott Division. No current HID, but a torn foil sticker. The replacement bailer cap was a short one. The red cockpit has a storage compartment. The white deck has a set of red stripes (2 narrow, 1 wide) on the bow. After a wait of a couple of years I’m spending today peeling and “de-gluing” the numbers off the sail. Thanks to this forum, I have an idea about how to do remove the adhesive.
As a novice sailor, I look forward to later this week for its maiden voyage (with me!), but will what happens due to Hurricane Henri. Thanks for any information!
About the Sunfish. My guess is that its a 1971.5. It has bronze hardware, mahogany daggerboard, rudder and tiller. It has stickers that are AMF Sunfish Alcott Division. No current HID, but a torn foil sticker. The replacement bailer cap was a short one. The red cockpit has a storage compartment. The white deck has a set of red stripes (2 narrow, 1 wide) on the bow. After a wait of a couple of years I’m spending today peeling and “de-gluing” the numbers off the sail. Thanks to this forum, I have an idea about how to do remove the adhesive.
As a novice sailor, I look forward to later this week for its maiden voyage (with me!), but will what happens due to Hurricane Henri. Thanks for any information!
