andyatos
Well-Known Member
The two Sunfishes I'm upgrading have extraordinarily corroded bow handles. See the photo below of one of them.
The red marks are where, while pulling one of them up the marsh for storage last time, the handle broke clean off in my hand. What remains attached to the deck is what you see to the left of each of the red marks.
You can also see that the corrosion is so bad, there's no screw heads of any kind to use to back the screws out in order to remove the parts that remain. How would you suggest that I go about that?
And... from reading all the cool, Sunfish restoration pictorial essays here on the forum, I've come to realize that I somehow want to keep at least one screw on each end of the old handle in the deck because if I take them all out, the backing block may then fall to the floor of the hull inside. Ie, no more backing block for the new handle.
Any recommendations on how to proceed would be appreciated. Really need new bow handles on these two boats because we plan to tow the Sunfishes out to some nice sailing spots off Monomoy Island on Cape Cod.
Thanks,
- Andy
The red marks are where, while pulling one of them up the marsh for storage last time, the handle broke clean off in my hand. What remains attached to the deck is what you see to the left of each of the red marks.
You can also see that the corrosion is so bad, there's no screw heads of any kind to use to back the screws out in order to remove the parts that remain. How would you suggest that I go about that?
And... from reading all the cool, Sunfish restoration pictorial essays here on the forum, I've come to realize that I somehow want to keep at least one screw on each end of the old handle in the deck because if I take them all out, the backing block may then fall to the floor of the hull inside. Ie, no more backing block for the new handle.
Any recommendations on how to proceed would be appreciated. Really need new bow handles on these two boats because we plan to tow the Sunfishes out to some nice sailing spots off Monomoy Island on Cape Cod.
Thanks,
- Andy