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

http://www.sailboatsToGo.com located a 1972 Sea Snark and shows you what it can still do. Buy the modern version at http://www.sailboatstogo.com/v_page.php?content=Snark_Super_Snark_Sunflower__... . In this video we show you optional stabilizer pontoons and an optional rowing rig for the Snark. This model was called the Sea Snark. The equivalent today is the Super Snark. Another model, the Sunflower, is similar but a little bigger, with more sail area.

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• Snark
• Sea
• styrofoam
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• portable
• car
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[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!

[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.

[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.

[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

[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]

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