wjejr
Active Member
Hi everyone, I am new to this forum.
I picked up what I believe to be a 1971 Sunfish for free last fall. I say, "believe," as it has both a storage compartment behind the cockpit and the old style bronze rudder fittings.
I read in the sailingtexas.com site under Sunfish model year table the following:
The cockpit was redesigned for the 1971 models, which started shipping after the end of August shutdown 1970. However the older cockpits (short) had a flanged top (where they intersected the deck, and the new ones added in September 1970 did not have this. This caused any boat with any nontrivial amount of traditional (deck up) trailering to be an immediate leaker, because the bottom of the cockpit would crack out the hull.
Looking at my boat, I see no sign either in the cockpit or the hull of any "cracking out". It isn't actually clear to me the way that article was written whether the cracks would be in or outside the boat. Does anyone know the answer?
Thanks in advance for your help.
I picked up what I believe to be a 1971 Sunfish for free last fall. I say, "believe," as it has both a storage compartment behind the cockpit and the old style bronze rudder fittings.
I read in the sailingtexas.com site under Sunfish model year table the following:
The cockpit was redesigned for the 1971 models, which started shipping after the end of August shutdown 1970. However the older cockpits (short) had a flanged top (where they intersected the deck, and the new ones added in September 1970 did not have this. This caused any boat with any nontrivial amount of traditional (deck up) trailering to be an immediate leaker, because the bottom of the cockpit would crack out the hull.
Looking at my boat, I see no sign either in the cockpit or the hull of any "cracking out". It isn't actually clear to me the way that article was written whether the cracks would be in or outside the boat. Does anyone know the answer?
Thanks in advance for your help.