Recent content by ben661

yea the price goes up normally by about £100 a year, so who knows wen they will stop with it, i ordered mine about a year ago and it cost £3670 for the boat minus covers trolley and trailer :)

i have a SEA Hottop which i like, except don't get it near the velcro on your gloves lol

a wide strap spreads the load throughout your feet, therefore you have less pressure on one place, which means less likelihood of injuries and more comfort, imagine using a 6mm line as your toestrap lol

i think the blue blocks are fastened with a rivet which is better than screws, i heard it is highly recommended to buy them instead of the black ones because they are less likely to come apart :)

yea i definitely helps but it hurts, i haven't used mine for ages but when i used to get off it i couldn't walk or hear much for about a minute :)

Sometimes i wish i had never built a hiking bench for the sheer pain that it puts you through lol

get a life, get a Laser or get out k Jason btw Hi Maizy

Jason Dixon must be pretty sad if he bothers to post poems or wateva in here lol

haha yes it was close i certainly had difficultly getting past you, some of those gusts weren't nice though :)

hi jon thought i recognised that sail number

it caused because the trailing edge of your rudder or centreboard is uneven which causes it to flap at high speed. You need to sand the edge to make sure it is fair. I also have this problem and have done the sanding but it still hums and vibrates the tiller

interestingly Scheidt was using a masthead burgee at the olympics

I managed to watch the whole of the last laser race but what was surprising is that there was not much to be learned from the sailors. They were all doing bad habits like dropping their extensions on tacks and things like that (except Scheidt)

good observations. The BBC coverage of the sailing has been abysmal to say we are doing so well. Hardly anything live has been shown. The point about the vang is interesting. Does Robert use the entire old vang or only the old cleat like Michael Blackburn? (who considers it too heavy)

I just bought my first boat new this season and I have found that the daggerboard does have quite a bit of side to side movement. I am fairly sure that this is not unusual but i have thought it could be tighter in the case. Anyway i don't really know much as I have only owned the one boat