Showing posts with label sponge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sponge. Show all posts

Friday, June 12, 2020

Sunfish Storage Tips

06 Jun 20:

We thought we had our Sunfish stored nice and dry, under a tin roof and with a SLO Sail and Canvas Spars-On-Deck cover. When I moved CHIP to get to the old floorboards underneath, I heard water slosh. Uh oh. We pulled the cover off and found that water rain water had blown into a gap in the cover at the stern and drained down into the cockpit, caused by the mast holding the cover up just a bit. The gap was our fault, I should have snugged the cover down a bit more. The cockpit was fine, we sponged out the water, but the floorboards warped and had mold. We cleaned everything up and will try to save the floorboards, right now we parked the dolly on top of them to flatten them back out. Stay tuned...


Log of CHIP.

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Tuesday Tool of The Week: Bailer aka Sponge

12 May 20:

Bailer: 1) A lightweight bucket used to move water from inside a boat back to its natural habitat. 2) A venturi drain system found in Sunfish sailboat cockpits. 3) A porous material used to absorb liquids. Usually found in the bucket, the cockpit of a Sunfish sailboat or the lazarette of an O'Day Day Sailer II. See also Sponge.

Tuseday Tool of the Week