Does your Summer Commissioning plan involve a fresh water wash of your Sunfish? Here's a video we made on how To Clean Your Sunfish and not fill up the inside of the hull with water in the process. We also discuss the plethora of holes that ALCORT designed into the boat, many of which might allow water inside while giving your boat a bath. Some are well sealed, some are not, so exercise restraint then rinsing off the topside of the Sunfish. Water may enter through deck hardware holes on the bow handle, halyard block, halyard cleat, daggerboard retainer eyestrap, bridle eyestraps and gudgeon. Along with the gudgeon we commonly find leaks at the bailer seam, daggerboard trunk and the mast step. The coaming has 13 holes all by itself and there is a vent hole on the forward bulkhead of these series. And the deck/hull seam itself could be one long continuous hole over 32 feet long. Cockpit tub to deck bonding, hull drain...I'm sure I missed a few holes. Plus look for any wayward drill holes where intrepid restoration has gone awry, we've found spots where folks have drilled holes in the deck edge seam while replacing a trim rivet.
How To Clean Your Sunfish and Inspect All the Holes. Starring 1982 AMF ALCORT Sunfish PHOENIX
How To Clean Your Sunfish and Inspect All the Holes. Starring 1982 AMF ALCORT Sunfish PHOENIX