Hey everyone,
I haven't posted much on here before, but I wanted to share some pictures and detail about my recently restored wooden sunfish. I got lucky enough to find a wooden sunfish when I was 14, long before I knew how rare or cool they really were. I found it at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum at their 2013 Charity Boat Auction that they have every Labor Day weekend. My sunfish was one of their boats with a set price- $275. What's great about being a kid that shows interest in sailing is that the older guys are always willing to cut you a break since they want you to get into it. The guys that ran the auction gave me the boat for $140. My dad and I went back two days later, since we had no way of taking it home with us the date of purchase. Of course, we didn't have a trailer to bring to grab it. Instead, my dad and I slid it into the back of our Suburban and made the 3 hour drive home with the stern hanging out of the car, but we made it back with the boat in one piece. After checking the serial number, we determined it is a 1964 sunfish, so it was almost definitely a kit. Attached is a picture from a couple years back, when my dad and I decided it would be much easier to just buy a trailer, especially since the one we were looking at came with a fiberglass sunfish!!! I'll be posting more this week. I am just about wrapped up with my restoration, I just need to collect all the pictures and parts and get them uploaded. Let me know what you guys think!
-Mark
I haven't posted much on here before, but I wanted to share some pictures and detail about my recently restored wooden sunfish. I got lucky enough to find a wooden sunfish when I was 14, long before I knew how rare or cool they really were. I found it at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum at their 2013 Charity Boat Auction that they have every Labor Day weekend. My sunfish was one of their boats with a set price- $275. What's great about being a kid that shows interest in sailing is that the older guys are always willing to cut you a break since they want you to get into it. The guys that ran the auction gave me the boat for $140. My dad and I went back two days later, since we had no way of taking it home with us the date of purchase. Of course, we didn't have a trailer to bring to grab it. Instead, my dad and I slid it into the back of our Suburban and made the 3 hour drive home with the stern hanging out of the car, but we made it back with the boat in one piece. After checking the serial number, we determined it is a 1964 sunfish, so it was almost definitely a kit. Attached is a picture from a couple years back, when my dad and I decided it would be much easier to just buy a trailer, especially since the one we were looking at came with a fiberglass sunfish!!! I'll be posting more this week. I am just about wrapped up with my restoration, I just need to collect all the pictures and parts and get them uploaded. Let me know what you guys think!
-Mark