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Pintle and Spring - Sunfish - 10082

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The complete pintle pin assembly includes both the pin and the spring to attach the rudder to the boat.

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Tuesday, january 30, 2018, sunfish rudder conversion.

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Found you today as I pondered the fate of a pair of Sunfish hulls. Rigging is gone, so I thought about using a kite to pull instead. Plenty of kiteboarders out here moving gear. Also considered modifying to be a stand up paddle board........We'll see! Nice work, well documented. I appreciate your details. Would love to see more photos of the boat in action.

Clark, Great post! I'm looking to replace my rudder assembly with the newer style using your guidance here. I'd also love to repaint the hull. Painting is my least favorite chore, though. What paint do you recommend? My hull is white all around, with the blue and red stripe on the bow. Thanks!

Did you keep the old parts? Swany Dswanwick at mtsports.com

You're welcome. I prefer Pettit Easypoxy, but also have had luck with Interlux Brightside and Rustoleum Topside

Trying to post again Looking for an old brass pin for the old style rudder Swany Dswanwick at Mtsports.com

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Thanks Clark! Great post, with so many helpful details. My 1969 Alcort Sunfish will eventually need a rudder modernization, and I appreciated the run-down.

i have a question, how long would it take for the suspension springs to wear off?

Yury, We've had our new style rudder with the springs since the mid-90's. No signs of the springs wearing out. I have also used "stock" hardware store springs to hold a latch on our boarding ladder (different boat) that rusted completely after a few weeks. Materials matter.

Sorry for the late reply. We've only had one break, after owning old and new boats for 25 years and restoring over 20 boats.

Is the old rudder blade and tiller reused in the new conversion just reshaped? Cost of conversion parts please? Until then, I need to buy the tension bold, any one have one?

The old rudder blade and tiller are not reused. Last I checked the cost of new plastic or wood rudder and parts for a conversion was over $500 USD, if you could find them in stock. Yankee Boating Center used to sell a conversion kit. Used wooden parts are available on ebay and The Sunfish Forum or Craigslist. A complete rudder assembly with tiller runs from $150 on the very low side and up to over $300, plus you need the gudgeon, hump shaped backer plate, inspection port, sealant, hardware etc... You could check The Sunfish Forum or Yahoo Sunfish Sailor for the carriage bolt, but make sure you get the correct one. There is a shorter 4 inch bolt that goes to the Sailfish series boats and wooden Sunfish, and a longer 7+ inch bolt that goes to the fiberglass Sunfish. You could get a similar 7 inch long bronze 1/4-20 carriage bolt from Jamestown Distributors and see if they have a brass wing nut with the same thread pattern (I have yet to find a bronze wing nut to fit). https://www.jamestowndistributors.com/userportal/show_product.do?pid=1937 Good luck, Clark

What blade did you use in jigsaw? Any recommendations? Thanks

We use a blade designed for metal or laminate, they have more teeth than a wood cutting blade. Our advice for the jigsaw, make sure you have a dust mask rated for fiberglass, wear goggles and a long sleeve shirt. Have a small brush handy so you can stop the blade and brush dust away to better see your circle. Tape over the entire area first and draw your circle on the tape. Any marine sealant will work, most hardware stores carry the 3M brand. #8x1 screws should work, buy som 1 1/2 just in case and buy washers and nuts as well. Buy a few extra of each in case you drop one inside the hull and it disappears. You may also want to buy a deep socket and handle that fits the #8 nut, that is the best and easiest way to hold the nut while you tighten it. a regular small socket may not be deep enough as the nut tightens over the screw. Good luck!

Just acquired a 1964 hull. Thank you for posting this thread. Very helpful

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Boa noite! Gostaria muito de construir um. Será que poderia usar compensado de 10mm. Para as laterais ? (Costados) Sou fã desse clássico lindo e elegante... Abração...

In the picture under "picture of some of the parts needed", what is the pin inserted in the rudder that the tension springs connect to called? Also, what is it's length?

We call it a rudder tension spring pin. I'll have to measure it.

How did you seal the deck/hull seam just above the gudgeon? Mine was converted by a previous owner, and has the same gap in the aluminum trim in that spot. Caulk seems to fail and allow water to leak in.

The seam needs adhesive, not sealant. You can inject thickened epoxy into any gaps in the seam. We use a small syringe with Pettit Flexpoxy or TotalBoat THIXO.

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Sku: 85085 sunfish pintle pin.

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Laser Performance Part #85085

This is a replacement stainless steel pintle pin for all Sunfish with "new style" rudder set ups.

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Diving Into New York’s Murky Green Waters, Searching for Treasure

It’s hard to see through the water, and too easy to find trash, but divers are finding joy in exploring New York.

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By Arielle Domb

Photographs and Video by Michael Turek

• Published Aug. 17, 2024 Updated Aug. 18, 2024

Adam Riback has spent a lifetime thinking about what lies beneath the surface.

Growing up in Sea Gate, a small community on the western tip of Coney Island, Mr. Riback, 53, said he would spend hours gazing out at Gravesend Bay, thinking: “What’s underneath it? What’s down there?”

It wasn’t until decades later, when he happened upon a dive shop in Brooklyn, that he would find out.

Most New Yorkers probably don’t know it, but by some estimates there are about 5,000 shipwrecks scattered around the state’s shores, possibly one of the highest concentrations of wrecks in the world, according to one expert.

Since 1971, the New York City-based scuba diving club Big Apple Divers has been plunging into the coastal waters, uncovering shipwrecks and an array of aquatic creatures — sharks, whales, sea horses, ocean sunfish — hidden from plain sight.

Mr. Riback, now the executive director of the New York State Marine Education Association, joined Big Apple Divers in 2011 and later served as the group’s vice president. “Most people aren’t even aware that they could dive in the larger region, let alone close to Manhattan,” he said. “There’s a whole ecosystem in our backyard.”

Today, however, longtime Big Apple Divers members fear that the local diving scene is dwindling. Older divers fret that they are being aged out and that a world of submerged history is being forgotten.

“The most common misperception is just that there’s nothing to see,” said Harris Moore, 34, who runs an introductory diving course for the club.

In what is known by divers as “ Wreck Valley ,” a triangle of water between the Jersey Shore and Long Island, divers can explore hundreds of shipwrecks, like the U.S.S. San Diego , near Fire Island. It was sunk by a German mine in 1918, the only major U.S. warship lost during World War I, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command.

Shipwrecks provide new habitats and hiding spaces for small fish, away from predators. In time, clusters of corals, anemones and barnacles blossom. Giant lobsters, bluefish, blackfish and striped bass waft among the crevices of sunken vessels.

“If you’re into the marine life, it’s like an underwater scavenger hunt,” Mr. Moore said. “You never know what you’ll find.”

In the past 50 years, storms have become increasingly frequent and ferocious , threatening to rip apart ships and the objects they contain. Within years, some may be destroyed entirely.

The dive chair of Big Apple Divers, Tracy Cloherty, said she had found buttons, bits of china and personal items from passenger bags during local shipwreck dives.

“We’re preserving this little bit of history,” Ms. Cloherty, 58, said. “I don’t know if anyone remembers these people or not, and people only exist as long as they remain in somebody’s memory.”

But diving is not for the fainthearted. The waters around New York are regarded as more “hard-core” than somewhere like the Caribbean because of poor visibility, freezing temperatures and strong currents. Over the years, some divers have died during or shortly after explorations of wrecks. One wreck, the Andrea Doria , off the coast of Nantucket, Mass., is nicknamed the “Mount Everest of Wreck Diving” because navigating it is so difficult — and often deadly .

Those who are up for the challenge of local wreck diving describe submerging into muddy darkness — a foreboding green netherworld, sometimes so murky that they can’t see their fingers extended in front of them.

“They’re terrible days, where you just start feeling the dive site more than seeing it,” Mr. Moore said.

Jozef Koppelman, 66, who went to his first Big Apple Divers meeting when he was a teenager, said local divers have a sort of “selective amnesia”: One gleaming “postcard day” in New York’s waters overwrites nine where nothing could be seen at all.

“Part of the allure is the idea that it’s not consistent,” he said. “There’s a leap of faith with every trip.”

But Mr. Koppelman feared that things were changing. Many of his peers have retired from diving. Boats to dive sites have become less frequent.

Operating a dive boat or shop in New York may not be lucrative, given the limited clientele, the short dive seasons because of the weather and a shift toward buying equipment online.

Mr. Koppelman joked, “If you want to know what it feels like to own a boat, stand in a cold shower and rip up $100 bills.”

In recent years, however, a new generation of divers have been working to make New York’s underwater spaces cleaner and more accessible.

The Billion Oyster Project , a nonprofit group, works with over 100 New York City schools to restore the city’s oyster population.

These tiny creatures offer a range of environmental benefits, from filtering water to fostering biodiversity to softening the blow of waves during storms, standing as a buffer against flooding.

“We’re so disconnected from the harbor even though we’re New Yorkers and we live on this series of islands,” said Zoë Greenberg, 47, the project’s assistant dive safety officer. She trains students how to dive and build oyster nurseries in every borough, from Soundview Park in the Bronx to Lemon Creek Park on Staten Island.

She said one of the best parts of her job is pushing back on the idea that New York water is dirty and uninhabitable. “The water is now cleaner than it’s ever been,” Ms. Greenberg said. “It is safe to swim in most areas, most days of the year.”

Nicole Zelek, 32, is the founder of SuperDive, which provides diving instruction. She hosts regular underwater cleanups in Far Rockaway, near Kennedy International Airport in Queens. Divers spot horseshoe crabs, sea robins and vibrant coral colonies. “It’s magical that so much is going on beneath the surface,” she said.

But city beaches are also peppered with pollutants. Fishing lines trap crabs and other crustaceans. A shopping cart, an A.T.M. and a row of bus seats have even been found in the waters, Ms. Zelek said.

“You see the impact of humans living next to the sea in a way that maybe you wouldn’t see in the Caribbean and a protected park,” she said. “It is a good place to remember our connection to the rest of the world.”

For Dr. Michael Rothschild, 62, a pediatric otolaryngologist and Big Apple Divers’ medical adviser, part of the magic of diving in New York is its equalizing effect. “There’s really no different calculations for nitrogen loading for people who are Democrats or Republicans,” he joked.

Underwater, where language is reduced to a handful of gestures, social and political barriers dissipate. “Most human beings have very similar wants and needs,” he said, “When you’re diving, everybody’s producing CO₂. Everybody’s using oxygen. Everybody needs to breathe.”

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Hidden Beneath the Surface: It’s hard to see through New York’s murky green waters, but divers are plunging in  to search for shipwrecks and aquatic creatures.

WCBS Radio to Go Quiet: The all-news radio station was the soundtrack of countless cab rides in New York City for nearly 60 years. Now, it is turning its airwaves over to ESPN .

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Street Wars: New York City’s buses are often unreliable and slow (thanks to clogged streets), but even projects to ease these problems are getting delayed. Is Mayor Eric Adams to blame?

Sunday Routine: Kai Avent-deLeon, who owns a lifestyle store and a restaurant in Brooklyn, starts and ends her Sundays with her journal . In between? Friends, family and delicious food.

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