Open Fairlead

Signal Charlie All Messages By This Member #17731 We are sifting through the Parts List for the ALCORT Wooden Sunfish kit and the very last item listed was Open fairlead. Took us a while to figure out what it was. What do y'all think it is? Also we cut a replacement transom from mahogany for a wooden Sunfish restoration project (not the Sunfish pictured, that's ZIP, who's getting a hull puncture repaired red and some other deferred maintenance.) -- Cheers Clark and Skipper Our blog Our book?
Joe Budge All Messages By This Member #17734 I don't?know for definitively what an "open fairlead" is, but this immediately sprang to mind. Saw the pictured widget on the forward cockpit lip of a 1966 Sunfish. It's basically a hook on the centerline to catch the mainsheet coming down from the boom and redirect it to the skipper's hand. That sounds like a fairlead's job. In the picture you're looking at it from below. Regards, Joe
Signal Charlie All Messages By This Member #17737 Edited That didn't take long, you are definitively correct Joe. I had been calling it the sheet hook for decades. Interesting camera angle. Also interesting how the cockpit deck edge on some boats never had the aluminum trim. We have a 1982 boat like that. Maybe it was left off when there were trim shortages or cost cutting measures? Now let's stir things up and talk about bridles and coamings... Random photo below of the open fairlead NOT in use... -- Cheers Clark and Skipper Our blog Our book?

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