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Re: Best places to sell Sunfish (besides eBay)?
From watching the regular sunfish market, I'd say the "sell it" price is $700-1000 with the trailer. Or if you'd rather, a "put it on the market and see if someone rich comes along" price would be $1000-$1500. This is a pretty uneducated opinion, but there you go.
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Re: Best places to sell Sunfish (besides eBay)?
What part of Florida are you in? I'm in Florida also, it is hard to find a beach to play on as they are covered with condos, I remember when beach was public property I sailed a sunfish anywhere, now hard to find a place to launch Sent from my Verizon Motorola Droid |
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Re: Best places to sell Sunfish (besides eBay)?
thanks for advice. i did search for similar small sailboats. again only found 2 boats in last 2 years. this is Florida. i guess everyone has/wants large boats. mine is in fairly good shape. no cracks in hull, only small "crackling" on the finish. it comes with all rigging and the sail is almost new (new this year). it also comes with a small home-made (but registered and tagged) trailer. i love this boat but just cannot find time or a good location to sail here in my part of FL
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Re: Best places to sell Sunfish (besides eBay)?
I would compare prices to other locally advertised small sailboats of any brand/type.? I doubt that many people are specifically searching for a Minifish.? FWIW I bought my Minifish a couple of years ago for $700 (very good condition with like-new sail).? I also bought a Minifish for a friend recently for $450 in reasonably good condition (good hull, slightly ratty sail, wood daggerboard and rudder needed refinishing).? These were both in southeast Michigan, I'm guessing that prices vary regionally.
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
I looked out in the shop today and I have two mahagany unfinished rudders out there both have issues that keep them of the website or any of my commercial sales.? One has strange lines in in a couple of places that look a lot like splits but they're not splits.? ?I've tried numerous times over the years to break them with not success.? The other one look like a small area on the trailing edge that looks to have been broken off and then repaered with just epoxy.? Again both are completely serviceable.? I'll take $30 to get either one to you. Let me know John Owens
On Tuesday, May 28, 2019, 11:08:55 AM CDT, mark.suszko@... [sunfish_sailor] wrote:
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That is dandy, if you can *find* an affordable piece of mahogany in the required size. I spent weeks trolling not only big box stores but individual lumber suppliers and prices I got quoted sometimes approached the value of my entire boat, one the shipping was included. ?I was bout to give up and make one from oak with a ? fiberglass outer sheath, when I found an affordable, damaged mahogany rudder on eBay and fixed that up instead. |
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
You can always use what I call "Chesapeake teak," or pressure treated
yellow pine. It won't last like mahogany, but it'll get you sailing. Broken daggerboards are a useful source of rudder stock, also. - George On 5/28/19 12:08 PM, mark.suszko@... [sunfish_sailor] wrote: -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When I remember bygone days George Dinwiddie I think how evening follows morn; gdinwiddie@... So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born. also see: 'The Middle' by Ogden Nash ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
That is dandy, if you can *find* an affordable piece of mahogany in the required size. I spent weeks trolling not only big box stores but individual lumber suppliers and prices I got quoted sometimes approached the value of my entire boat, one the shipping was included. ?I was bout to give up and make one from oak with a ? fiberglass outer sheath, when I found an affordable, damaged mahogany rudder on eBay and fixed that up instead.
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Re: Should I DIY a homemade rudder blade?
I suggest making one out of mahogany.? I have 2 15 year old scouts recently make one and it was an enjoyable process.??
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Re: How to remove sail ring clips
开云体育Hello all, ? Last time I changed the sail I used a VERY large screwdriver and just twisted the head at the same spot the video indicated was being done with a much smaller screwdriver. The clips just popped right off without breaking any. ? I can remember when I was a kid, back in the late 1960s/1970s there was actually a tool designed for this purpose (if anyone has one out there I would be happy to purchase it). It looked like a (one) hole punch for paper but had a little bit of a forked projection that would fit behind the clip and then as you actuated the mechanics of the contraption it would put pressure on the protruding stud and the clip would pop open. ? Since reentering the world of Sunfish, after a 45 year hiatus three years ago, I looked around to see if I might've saved it to no avail. ? Happy days, ? Mark ? ? From: sunfish_sailor@... [mailto:sunfish_sailor@...]
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2019 3:34 PM To: sunfish_sailor@... Subject: [sunfish_sailor] Re: How to remove sail ring clips ? ? Nice tip. You can also take those needle nose and grab the end of the tab with the long edge of the pliers, then roll the tab back over the button. Sometimes the tab breaks, but usually new tabs are going back on. ? We lace our sails onwith 1/8th inch line, like Alcort used to. |
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Re: How to remove sail ring clips
Nice tip. You can also take those needle nose and grab the end of the tab with the long edge of the pliers, then roll the tab back over the button. Sometimes the tab breaks, but usually new tabs are going back on.
We lace our sails onwith 1/8th inch line, like Alcort used to. |
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Re: How to remove sail ring clips
开云体育Thanks for the ?video. Wished I'd seen it five months ago before removing the sail from my minifish. On a positive note- I only broke two rings. |
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Re: Sailfish hulls cheap
The rudder change has been submitted to World Sailing for consideration. The ISCA Advisory Council approved a proposal, sent it to the ISCA World Council which approved the potential change, causing it to be eligible to be submitted to World Sailing.? The minutes were poorly written and should have stated implementation cannot occur until the proposal is approved by World Sailing.? That can take 1-1/2 to 2 years.? Making the rudder blade more vertical is reported to make loads on the tiller lighter when it is windy, making less deflection in the tiller, lower loads on the rudder cheeks, easier to steer.? In weedy locations may prove to be a problem.? TBD.? If it is approved by World Sailing, watch for far clearer information and how to's, but it's going to be a while. People who are good with tools will have an advantage. |
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