Before rigging the boat, I gave the sails a good lookover to see if there were any rips and tears... there were none. The sails were fairly clean although there is one rust stain on the main. The battens were in very good shape but I added tell tales to the main (shown below) and jib (red and green on port and starboard sides). The main tell tales were made from scratch from blue ripstop nylon.
My boat has no id plate on it so I have no idea what the hull number is. So, I made one up (year of my birth) and scratch made the numbers using Challenge Insignia cloth from Sailrite. When I installed number on another sail, I saved the backing paper to use them as a pattern for new numbers. This 6 and 5 were actually a 9 and 5 from a sail bag I made for Wally and Dena (Hunter 23 #1159).
I rigged the boat and raised the sails - very happy with the way this looks. I had to scrounge around in my ample supply of lines and fittings for new halyards, sheets and a few other things, but she is pretty much ready to sail once I paint the hull and mount the rudder (and figure out a way to get her to the lake using my utility trailer).
She is fairly light and can be rolled onto her side by just grabbing the mast and pulling it down. The center board can be easily raised and lowered in this way to clean it up.
