Recent content by Tops

If you can add a couple stops to or from Chicago, it's not a bad trip from the Cities.

You not bonding with a boat?!? :);):D Your love for them was beaming last time we visited. But wholesale misrepresentation by a seller does sully a deal. My first Sunfish was 100 pounds overweight/waterlogged and the seller claimed there was nothing wrong. But that lead to finding this group and...

@don44 , it mIght be worth a PM to @Mama H Chicago to see if there are any available.

Oh Mama! Are you divesting of all boats or just the project ones?

Hey Mama H, greetings from Minnesota! I am not seeing your pics, please re-post when you can. I moved a couple wooden boats and parts thereof on to the landfill and recycling this spring as well, it can be a tough call and I hope the decision is freeing for you. I am looking to have Ghost back...

Another day, another 25 cents Canadian....old patches ahead of the centerboard slot came off relatively easy and revealed an old crumbly wound.

Spring weather premitting, I hope to be back on completing repairs on this hull soon. Q: For replacing the wooden blocking behind hardware in a 1960's Sunfish, is any hardwood significantly better than another? I have some deconstructed pallet wood that seems suitable. I read recently somewhere...

For myself, no, not until you mentioned it... Class Specifications (Hull and Sail) 2021 Chelsea Classic

The OP from the thread on WoodenBoat gave me a diagram that was made with input from that discussion and offered me to share it here:

Another thread on lateen sails, from another forum, with comments about the diagrams I posted above by an experienced small-boat sail maker: https://forum.woodenboat.com/forum/building-repair/161866-?p=9072003#post9072003

Found a picture of a sail like mine with some wind in in: Picture found here: Keeping the Passion for Sailing Afloat

Above is a quick look at my own sail. The note on 1" luff and foot tape is really 2" ( folded for 1 inch each side) In the 1975 copy of the Mainsail pamphlet from Sailrite, it indicates broadseams but differs in dimensions, panel count, grommet count as my Alcort one from 10 years later or...

Ola J- Some places list the luff and foot 13.25 feet and the leech 14.25 feet (only 1 inch or 2.5cm different) . I am not sure how any of them measure area, I get more like 7.4 or 7.5 m^2 with an online claculator, but I imagine the sails are not really flat but drafted. Now I am curious...

Congrats on the new-to-you boat. Is the rudder cheek a stainless or aluminum affair? Cut it off, beat to fit, have it re-welded.

When I tried drilling out the threaded plug, the fitting in the boat got warm enough to break the bond to the boat and they came right out. Maybe a soldering iron or soldering gun would be a more controllable way to heat the fitting? Close-up pic of a older drain plug system from @Alan S. Glos