Recent content by ForestLake

Laser Learner

Just go to the Annapolis Performance Sailing web site www.apsltd.com. They have several rigging sets for Sunfish.

While not class legal, the Velocitek speed puck is a great device. It gives your speed to the tenth of a knot, heading, max speed, and records your actual course while sailing to download on a computer. Certainly a good tool for training and seeing what all the little changes and tweaks are...

I've had good luck using a hair dryer, with the heat set to off, placed around the drain hole on the deck. It provides a limited, but constant air flow which is what you need to find the leaks.

Mitch While your mast movement does look normal, Annapolis Performance Sailing sells an inexpensive <$10. wear strip kit that wraps around the mast at the foot and deck contact area. Put one on my laser this year and it snugged it up just a little, and also really reduces the wear on the mast step.

I just installed a new centerboard brake on my 1976 laser and the holes lined up fine, and it is certainly an improvement over the old cracked rubber brake.

I have both boats, and a Sunfish is definitely the easier of the two to rig, and it is also a bit easier boat for a beginning sailor to learn to sail. I spend more time in my Sunfish than my Laser, but both are great boats.