Amfab
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I just bought a Sunfish after 35 years since playing with one when I was 15. Thank you guys for being here, old posts have already answered a lot of questions for me.
I have the boat down in Mexico at a friends house but I plan to going down there several times a year.
Its a mid-80s that is in pretty good shape. After spending several days sailing it in the gulf I am going down again this weekend and putting a harken block on it in place of the hook—to help with the fatigue.
My question is, I have a racing daggerboard with the foam/metal rods core. As were were leaving the beach my girlfriend stuck the tip of the daggerboard into the slot and we got hit by a small wave which knocked it out of her hand. This caused the weight of the board to lever against the two inches inserted in the slot and brake the tip off.
For this trip, I formed and welded up a stainless steel tip for it and glued it on using some polyurethane automotive panel adhesive, it should be good for now.
My use is recreational and its a few hundred miles south of the border on the gulf side so there is nowhere to get hardware for hours. So I am looking more for durability not so much racing. I have seen on eBay some mahogany reproductions of the racing daggerboard size/shape. I like how fast the boat is and I like how stable it is with the big daggerboard.
Would the mahogany one be more durable? Maybe my stainless tipped bionic-daggerboard will last.
here is the one I am looking at buying:
Thanks, -Andrew
I have the boat down in Mexico at a friends house but I plan to going down there several times a year.
Its a mid-80s that is in pretty good shape. After spending several days sailing it in the gulf I am going down again this weekend and putting a harken block on it in place of the hook—to help with the fatigue.
My question is, I have a racing daggerboard with the foam/metal rods core. As were were leaving the beach my girlfriend stuck the tip of the daggerboard into the slot and we got hit by a small wave which knocked it out of her hand. This caused the weight of the board to lever against the two inches inserted in the slot and brake the tip off.
For this trip, I formed and welded up a stainless steel tip for it and glued it on using some polyurethane automotive panel adhesive, it should be good for now.
My use is recreational and its a few hundred miles south of the border on the gulf side so there is nowhere to get hardware for hours. So I am looking more for durability not so much racing. I have seen on eBay some mahogany reproductions of the racing daggerboard size/shape. I like how fast the boat is and I like how stable it is with the big daggerboard.
Would the mahogany one be more durable? Maybe my stainless tipped bionic-daggerboard will last.
here is the one I am looking at buying:
Thanks, -Andrew