Snark Styrofoam Sailboat with Kool Sail, from 1972. Like Super Snark and Sunflower.

[gbanks70]

The sail is a "Sail America, Americas Cup, Pepsi) sail.. a little faded but mostly in the vivid red white and blue pepsi colors. I figured the old sail with a bit of duct tape would allow me to decide if i liked sailing enough to start buying new sails and equipment from folks like yourselves...... Anyway I had great fun .....thanks for being on youtube and giving me a clue how to do this sailing thing.....

[jimluckett]

@gbanks70 Sounds great.  10 foot is too tall for the mast -- I'd say cut it down to 99 inches at most. Good luck!

[gbanks70]

unfortunately no mast, but there was a forend splashguard. I cleaned the old girl up and removed the sorry ABS hull. I managed to find a 10 foot mast but it was 1and 1/4 inch OD so I had to remove the sleeve in the boat. The sail was a little torn in a couple of places, so I used some duct tape for a dirty-repair. I had to wait a week for the afternoon rains to stop but they finally did today. I went out on my first sail ever and after about 20mins I was having no problems.....

[gbanks70]

Hello Jim I picked up a super snark from a fellow on his way to the local dump last week-end. I have never sailed before, but having read A J Mackinnons book "Jack de Crow" I have been hankering for a small boat ever since. Anyway I had to force 20 dollars onto this fellow to convince him not to throw away this particular sailboat (he was cleaning out a foreclosed property in a gated community). The ABS hull was all torn and peeling, but there was a sail, tiller, and daggerboard .....

[camphoneguy]

Used one on the Hudson by the Tappen Zee Bridge. We used to laugh at the 'big boys' spending hours getting ready to go and we'd been out in a minute! Mine died a painful death when my roommate from my college days cracked it in half in a winter run, in a storm on the Hudson. It was $99 then. My friend got the one with Cool cigarettes and the plastic shell.

In the summer we'd have to be sure to be in by about 5:30 or sooner as the sea breezes coming up the Hudson would die and you'd be paddling

[dillstutorials]

would it be ok for camp cruising? or would the sunflower be better?

[jimluckett]

@dillstutorials They are similar. The advantages of the Sunflower are a little more width and freeboard, bigger sail, and a splash deck up front that helps to keep you a little dryer and gives you a place you can stuff a small amount of stuff up under to protect it from spray.

[Trolleymoose]

Very few things in life are both very neat and cheap. The snark boat is one of them. I owned my first Super Snark back in the 70s, owned about 10 other sailboats (including cruisers) then returned to a Snark Sunflower in 2008. It was great then, and it's great now.

[Goo59ber]

Dang, makes me miss my Super Snark sooooooo much. I added 4 ft to the top spar and attached extra sail material. Whoa, baby! It behaved like an Egyptian Falucca in the water. I made a longer daggerboard and it could really get up and move. The light weight had me tossing it into places quickly while the ramp crowd lined up with their vehicles/trailers cussing. I was long gone by the time they hit the water. I could take a small tent, food, water, and go anyplace on the Arizona lakes. FUN

[seacilia]

SEACILIA HOLIDAY TO SICILY

[JanitorFox]

Great video! I really enjoyed the boat twirling segment...showing its true weight and bulkiness. Cant wait for my sunflower to arrive in the mail! :-)

[mrhulot101]

The snark with the plastic over the foam was my first sailboat back in 1971. I seem to remember a price of $179, worth every penny.

[jimluckett]

@mrhulot101 That's the Super Snark.  Adjusted for inflation, it's about the same price today ($949 in 2010). I just calculated it on an "inflation calculator" website and $179 in 1971 is $937 in 2009.

[mrhulot101]

@jimluckett thanks for the reply Jim, enjoy your videos muy mucho, you appear to have fun making them so it makes them easy to watch