On Apr 19, 2020, at 10:51 AM, dghutt <dghutt@...> wrote:

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There was 5cm of snow on the ground in Halifax when I got up this morning. Even without a pandemic I don’t think I’d be sailing quite yet. But I get antsy this time of year, especially seeing the posts from all of you in southern waters.

So to occupy myself in Covid isolation, and to get a quick Sunfish fix, I devoted a couple of weekends to putting together a 1/16 scale ‘Fish from stuff I could find around the house. This is probably the only group I know that might appreciate it!

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The Hull is 3mm depron foam left over from a few RC plane builds. It’s easy to cut and shape, and glues up with a glue gun, but dents and scratches at a glance and melts with CA glue or spray paint.

Tiller, daggerboard and rudder are mahogany. Mast and spars are bamboo skewers painted silver, and the sail is from strips of gift wrap tissue, glued with diluted school glue and stiffened with matte acrylic spray. The lines are polyester kitchen twine, dyed with food colouring. Sail rings are strips of printer paper. It passes the “from-five-feet” test... barely. ?But it tied up my idle hands for a while.

I’d love to hear about other members’ quarantine Sunfish projects.

Dave