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Your description is ok, but could fit a hundred different Alcort Sunfish look-alikes. A picture or pictures would help a whole bunch.coaming made into the deck (raised coaming) halyard bullseye pulley starboard of the mast and the main halyard cleat behind the mast. the lenght of the boat is 13 foot 6 inches. cant find any pics that look like my sunfish. I assume it is pre 72
I'm not sure what you have there.here are some pics mine kind of looks like yours except where the rudder attaches.
- there is also a metal pipe inserted halfway down the hole where the mast goes.
- below that there is a small hole in the glass matting.
- mine aslo has no way of looking inside the hull except for seperation. did you install the circular door in the hull?
- and what kind of sail boat is yours?
- mine is painted white, but when i buffed it i got down to the tan gelcoat
Good observation...I noticed the base of the mast has a real nasty curve to it (or maybe it's just the picture).
If so, this may explain the steel etc. mast sleeve - perhaps someone inserted a mast sleeve such as to give the bent mast bottom more strength...
Or maybe that itself contributed to the mast bottom being bent....
The pictures will help a lot - thanks. They'll help for comparing the other hull as well.ill take some pics tomorrow and post them. just bought it for the hull. Ive got a complete donor sunfish that needs a hull. I have not seen it yet, but I think it uses the old style rudder. I paid $125 for the hull and it came with the mast 2 booms and some other pole. maybe the extra pole was going to be used to fix the end of the lower boom. I know the donor hull is red and it has been seperated. I wonder which hull would be easier to fix?
. . . or the Amflite, but look at where AMF places the drain plug. And compare the cockpit design with the one yet to be identified.It looks like a windflite 14 to me which had that molded coaming with a wood top screwed to it.
Thanks for posting the additional pictures.here are some more pics of the hull, mast, booms, and another pipe
I am leaning toward a competitor's very close Sunfish copy with a few subtle differences to keep from getting sued for copyright infringement. The Funfish/Viking is one such design that did land in court.
This type of boat is most often made using polyester resin. Epoxy and glass fabric in the same hull thickness would result in a boat about 10% heavier and 4x the resin cost. The factory gelcoat layer is about 0.020" (20 mil), beneath that the structural resin/fabric lay-up I've seen has had a straw yellow or coke bottle green appearance.i think the hull color is red top and bottom. i pulled a cracked piece of gelcoat of and saw red underneith. looks a little thin though to be gel coat, but maybe it was the 80 mil thick white gelcoat that was rolled which made the red look that way. or was the resin red incolor used to lay the mat. also what type of resins did they use (epoxy, polyester ....) the cockpit measures 32 lenght 22 width, and the widest piont assuming thats the beam was 45
Sunfish has a vent hole in the front wall of the cockpit. It's about 1/8" diameter, but I've never seen one that was labeled.also noticed a tag on the front center of the cockpit stating "vent" with a small hole drilled above it. do sunfish have this vent tag on them?
Sunfish has a vent hole in the front wall of the cockpit. It's about 1/8" diameter, but I've never seen one that was labeled.
The hole prevents internal pressure build-up from popping a seam when the boat sits in the sun. I expect most all closed pontoon hull style boats have this feature somewhere inconspicuous.
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This 1964 Sunfish has the vent put right through the emblem. Might your boat have it in this deck location as well?Wayne, has this always been the case? My Sunfish is mid-1960's (as far as I can tell - no hull ID or any other markings). I have the 2 drain-plugs near the ends of the coaming, though. I definitely do not have a vent hole in the cockpit, though.
If your boat has become completely sealed tight through repairs and modifications, you might consider drilling a breather vent in the cockpit.Wayne, it might have - but the emblem was removed (and lost?) for a re-paint job years ago (by previous owner), and they might have "repaired" that hole, as it was not there. That looks to be right where I cut a inspection port in, so I can't double check, though.
Don't confuse this vent with something intended as ventilation for staying dry. This little hole is just for pressure equalization when the boat moves from the shade of your garage to the heat of the sun.Wayne,
I still have a leak somewhere, so she ain't watertight, that's for sure. But, when I've been storing it in my garage this summer, I keep the inspection port covers off, and have a small fan running on it to keep her dry between sailing trips. I'll look it over again for any tiny holes, though, and if I can't find one, maybe add a vent as you suggest.
thanks,
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Ah, I thought you were relating the two, but you just mentioned them in the same breath. Got it now. Sorry 'bout that.wayne,
yup - I was just saying I don't keep it shut up tight right now, so I shouldn't have any unequal pressure problems. thanks for clarifying the vent hole purpose, though.
That's cool, never encountered that before. Not that something can't exist just because I haven't seen it . It is mentioned in the manual, or one of the manuals, but I've yet to see it identified directly on any of the boat models.I once had an AMF Flite 12 ( Minifish ) which had a "VENT" sticker , just below the cockpit vent hole. The sticker also had an arrow on it , pointing straight at the vent hole , just to make doubly sure you didn't plug it up !
I've got some photo's of it on my computer somewhere , but I can't find them. No doubt I'll stumble across them.