“It’s clearly a significant change,” Farrar says. He’s been working his version of the Sunfish sail for several years. “The concept is to make something that’s going to make the boat ...

One of the most common summer visitors are ocean sunfish — stubby, gentle giants that look like a much larger fish that has been cut in half. They essentially have no tail. Rather than the cycle- or ...

So Alcort’s first employee, Carl Meinert, designed a cockpit for the Sunfish, drawing the first mock-up in dust on the floor of Alcort’s woodshop in Waterbury, Connecticut. The first Sunfish ...

For more information, contact Vanguard Sailboats at 200 Highpoint Ave., Portsmouth, RI 02871, 1-800-966-SAIL, or visit its Web site at www.teamvanguard.com. Sunfish trivia ...