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Judy Maier
I have enjoyed sailing a sunfish for many years but can no longer even pick up the boat to put in the water. The boat itself if full of water that is in the hull and will not come out. Some had suggested how to get the water out and fix it so water no longer comes in but I lost the information. Can anyone help me.
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Wayne Carney
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Sounds like you have a real problem there. Let's start with the basics - Have you opened the drain plug and tried letting the water out? Wayne -----Original Message----- |
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Judy Maier
Hi Wayne,
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Had to leave yesterday and just got your message. Yes this was done. ----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne Carney Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 2:30 PM To: sunfish_sailor@... Subject: RE: [sunfish_sailor] water in Sunfish Hi Judy, Sounds like you have a real problem there. Let's start with the basics - Have you opened the drain plug and tried letting the water out? Wayne -----Original Message----- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor If you do not wish to belong to Sunfish_sailor, you may unsubscribe by sending an email to: sunfish_sailor-unsubscribe@... Please do not send unsubscribe requests directly to the group. USEFUL ADDRESSES Post message: sunfish_sailor@... Subscribe: sunfish_sailor-subscribe@... Unsubscribe: sunfish_sailor-unsubscribe@... URL to egroups page: Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : |
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Dave Jeffries
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Is yours one with the drain plug on the upper right (starboard) side just forward of the cockpit ? If so, are you propping the boat up so that the drain hole is down ? If so, and no water is coming out (it may come pretty slow if the foam is soaked) you might inspect the drain hole to see that nothing is plugging it up from the inside (like a piece of dislodged foam). If yours is one with the drain in the stern, again the flow may be slow and / or something may be plugging the hole. After all the "loose" water is out then you will still have the challenge of the waterlogged foam to deal with. Dave J sd0044@... ================================================== ----- Original Message -----
From: Judy Maier To: sunfish_sailor@... Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 09:07 Subject: Re: [sunfish_sailor] water in Sunfish Hi Wayne, Had to leave yesterday and just got your message. Yes this was done. ----- Original Message ----- From: Wayne Carney Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 2:30 PM To: sunfish_sailor@... Subject: RE: [sunfish_sailor] water in Sunfish Hi Judy, Sounds like you have a real problem there. Let's start with the basics - Have you opened the drain plug and tried letting the water out? Wayne > -----Original Message----- > From: Judy Maier [mailto:judylake@...] > Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 10:38 AM > To: sunfish_sailor@... > Subject: [sunfish_sailor] water in Sunfish > > > I have enjoyed sailing a sunfish for many years but can no longer > even pick up the boat to put in the water. The boat itself if > full of water that is in the hull and will not come out. Some > had suggested how to get the water out and fix it so water no > longer comes in but I lost the information. Can anyone help me. > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor If you do not wish to belong to Sunfish_sailor, you may unsubscribe by sending an email to: sunfish_sailor-unsubscribe@... Please do not send unsubscribe requests directly to the group. USEFUL ADDRESSES Post message: sunfish_sailor@... Subscribe: sunfish_sailor-subscribe@... Unsubscribe: sunfish_sailor-unsubscribe@... URL to egroups page: Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT If you do not wish to belong to Sunfish_sailor, you may unsubscribe by sending an email to: sunfish_sailor-unsubscribe@... Please do not send unsubscribe requests directly to the group. USEFUL ADDRESSES Post message: sunfish_sailor@... Subscribe: sunfish_sailor-subscribe@... Unsubscribe: sunfish_sailor-unsubscribe@... URL to egroups page: Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. |
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Wayne Carney
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OK, having once been the owner of a 400 lb. bouncing baby Sunfish I can relate to having a bit of water trapped in the hull. I'll outline a couple of things here and let you apply what you feel is appropriate. Since the boat has gained a significant amount of weight I will assume that the internal foam floatation has become waterlogged. To dry these foam blocks out you will first need to install an inspection port - maybe two. (see the "How To" at Wind Line Sails' web site) You can passively dry the inner hull - or you can use a hair dryer to actively dry it. Because of the extent that my boat was waterlogged, I tried the active method first using one of those portable hair dryers that uses a hose connected to a bonnet. I added a vacuum cleaner hose extension and shoved the hose way inside the hull. In my case I ran the hair dryer for a week without any significant improvement. This leads to the next and more complicated approach. If the foam blocks will not dry they will need to be replaced. This involves separating the deck from the hull. It's involved, but not impossible - on the older boats that have the aluminum trim around the hull to deck flange it can work out well. I have not done this on the newer boats with the rolled hull to deck flange and will have to make some inquiries to see how its done. If you decide you need to replace the blocks let me know and I will attempt to guide you. There are some illustrated instructions around, but I can't seem to find them at the moment. Phase Dux ------ Since water has gotten into the hull I will assume there's another problem. Sunfish can develop leaks at a couple of key points. The mast step, the daggerboard trunk, and on older models the deck to hull flange and the cockpit flange. The mast step is probably the most common leak point - but - to be sure it is best to run a leak test. This "How To" tells you how to find a leak. Depending on what you find in the leak test will determine what will need to be done beyond that. As Doug Adams once said, "Don't PANIC" Hope this helps, Wayne -----Original Message----- |
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Wayne
Judy,
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More information.... If you would like to see what the inside of the Sunfish hull looks like, there is a series of photos of a '79 Fish in the Group FILES section. Wayne -----Original Message----- |
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