On Sep 1, 3:16 pm, wrote:
Bart wrote:
Thursday was fairly light. I found a few deficiencies with
the new boat (Threat). I decided to bob the tiller a few
inches, so I can sit on the back deck on light days. I plan
chuck the wooden hiking stick and replace it with a nice
hiking stick. The first things I plan to replace are the
main halyard and main sheet. Later on I'll install a couple
of carbo blocks (illegal for racing, but I like them)
Horvath wrote:
Sunfishes don't race, dumbass. You have to move up to a Force Five if
you want to race.

Wrong. Sunfish very definitely race.http://www.bbyc.net/SunfishWorlds/Re...lbum/index.htm

Actually, they do. It is the largest sailboat class.

http://www.sunfishclass.org/

I can't remember how many boats are actively racing
It is a large number.

They used to pull in a couple hundred for the Worlds, now they
apparently limit it to the top 100.

If I wanted to race in this sort of boat, I'd go for a Laser not a
Force Five.

In many ways the Force 5 is a better boat than a Laser, the deck & the
controls are much better. I also happen to like the F5's 3-piece mast,
many prefer the two-piece like a Laser. But the Laser class grew and
the F5 class did not. The Banshee is a better boat than either IMHO.

Lasers and F5s will death-roll in a heartbeat. I've never death-rolled
in a Sunfish but have submarined. They are a lot of fun in big wind
because they are very predictable & easy to muscle around. In 15+ the
Laser tends to shoot out from under you (or it does me, anyway).

Match racing Sunfish sounds like a lot of fun Bart

Doug

Come on over. I have a free place to launch and two boats.
I'm going work over an old landscape trailer into a small boat
hauler. I plan to build it to carry six Sunfishes. It probably
won't carry more than four. I have two serviceable and one
old one for a winter project boat/spares boat, and I store one
for my friend Dawson. It will be very nice to haul down more
than two to knock around at the beach. Two sailing together
is much more fun than sailing alone. Three or four should be
a real blast!