Benswingin
New Member
First post, just joined today. Heading to Lake Moomaw. My wife bought me a sunfish for $50. I was scared to open the sail bag, but turns out the sails are new. Lucky me! Boat has been sitting turned over in the woods in a pile of leaves for 3 years. I built a wood rack for it a couple of nights ago. (Very difficult!)
My goal is to have the 2 canoes also at the lake and Once there, build a Pontoon deck for them out of 2 pieces of plywood and 2x4’s. The sunfish would then Tow my family Aboard the ghetto-catamaran around the lake.
My plan is, during Transport, the rack will sit on top of the two canoes with the sailboat right-side up on the rack. Getting the sunfish up there seems to be the biggest problem I’m facing. Bought Some para cord & couple pulleys and I’m hoping to rig some sort of situation up to a tall branch and hoist the boat in place, and hope that there’s a similar situation where I’m going!
Another problem was the hull. It had some places where I could see fiberglass. 7-holes, a can of bondo, and 6-beers later hopefully has that fixed as of last night. Going to “lightly” sand all the dirt off of the gel-coat and wax this evening as it’s extremely oxidized and dirty.
Am I crazy? I’ll try and keep updating with pictures as this develops. Leaving Wednesday and feeling short on time. This should be entertaining, at least. Please don’t go easy on me guys, let the insults fly, idgaf. I’m gonna be the one laughing when I’m sailing my $50 sunfish by the bluffs, ice-cold beer in my hand, while my wife grills hot dogs on a charcoal fire 20’ behind me on a pontoon boat that was built in an hour.
My goal is to have the 2 canoes also at the lake and Once there, build a Pontoon deck for them out of 2 pieces of plywood and 2x4’s. The sunfish would then Tow my family Aboard the ghetto-catamaran around the lake.
My plan is, during Transport, the rack will sit on top of the two canoes with the sailboat right-side up on the rack. Getting the sunfish up there seems to be the biggest problem I’m facing. Bought Some para cord & couple pulleys and I’m hoping to rig some sort of situation up to a tall branch and hoist the boat in place, and hope that there’s a similar situation where I’m going!
Another problem was the hull. It had some places where I could see fiberglass. 7-holes, a can of bondo, and 6-beers later hopefully has that fixed as of last night. Going to “lightly” sand all the dirt off of the gel-coat and wax this evening as it’s extremely oxidized and dirty.
Am I crazy? I’ll try and keep updating with pictures as this develops. Leaving Wednesday and feeling short on time. This should be entertaining, at least. Please don’t go easy on me guys, let the insults fly, idgaf. I’m gonna be the one laughing when I’m sailing my $50 sunfish by the bluffs, ice-cold beer in my hand, while my wife grills hot dogs on a charcoal fire 20’ behind me on a pontoon boat that was built in an hour.