Jim,

If you been sailing Sunfishes for almost 60 years you must be close to me in age.? I appreciate your sense of humor with this turtling.? I think I have mine fixed now where it won’t turtle.? I like to keep mine up right.? In the summer there a lot of power boats zooming the ICW, so I like my sail on top where they can see me.? Sometimes I have to tack across the ICW and these boats are going fast and many cut right in front of me or right behind.? And a lot of them are drinking beer and have the stereo blasting and aren’t paying attention.? In the winter, without the boat traffic, I don’t want to go in the cold water, even with my drysuit.??? So I avoid capsizing and am likely a bit on the conservative side but I still ?love it nonetheless.

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My Force 5 will likely get the Clorox bottle on the top of the mast.? The sail is sleeved and there is no good way to install a permanent float.? The capsize rate on the F5 is about three times the Sunfish.? And with that high aspect ratio sail it is much more difficult to right especially when the mast gets some water in it and the sail is under water.

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Mr Mike

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