Alcort Sailfish

The Alcort Sailfish is a 3.5-meter lateen-rigged sailboat designed by Alexander Bryan and Cortland Heyniger, built by Alcort from 1945 to 1962. It features a daggerboard hull, a 0.8-meter beam, a 0.7-meter draft, and displaces 37 kg. Initially constructed from plywood and available as a kit, demand for the Sailfish surged after a *Life* magazine article, leading to increased production. Later variants included the wood Super Sailfish and the fiberglass Super Sailfish MKII.0:26 Aboard kentblairl, an Alcort Super Sailfish hull was repaired by sealing internal seams and filling structural voids with Total Boat Thixo epoxy, particularly along the mast step, daggerboard trunk, and interior deck edge.1:05 The oak keel's rot-damaged areas and old screw holes were filled with epoxy to maintain structural integrity.2:29 Kent Blair also installed a new white pine rub rail on an Alcort Sailfish named Jaja using silicone bronze wood screws, drilling pilot holes with a Fuller combination countersink and pilot bit.ver Another Super Sailfish, Zsa Zsa, received a new rub rail and toe rail made from primed pine trim, secured with silicone bronze screws and thickened epoxy.0:43 Replacement handrails for a Super Sailfish were fabricated from cypress stock, with old fastener holes in the deck filled with thickened epoxy before new ones were drilled.0:02 Identifying replacement parts for vintage Sailfish models requires distinguishing between hardware generations, as early wooden models use a three-inch vertical latch plate for rudders, while later fiberglass versions require a seven-inch plate.1:56