Recent content by Josef

Oh yes, I forgot to mention the cloth issue. There is quite a bit of variation in the behaviour of the cloth between diffrent batches. The resin threatment that dacron cloth go through is quite hard to control and thus diffrent batches of the "same" cloth can have big variations in stiffness and...

Re: Progress on new sail design ? Laser Tech committee So I've been told but I wouldn't put to much faith in peoples (mine or others) ideas about sail diffrences. To be quite honest I think it's all in our heads. I don't have any personal experience with the diffrent sail manufacturers but I...

Re: Progress on new sail design ? Laser Tech committee Personaly I like how everyone has the use the same kind of sails (assuming that all "lasermade" sails are the same). I like that there is at least one competetive class were you don't have to think about sails.

I've been looking at the Rooster Pro 3/4 Hike shorts and the Zhik 3/4 MicroFleece Power Pad hikers. Planing to use them together with my gul spray top most of the time and with some sort of rashguard in warm weathers. I wonder how you think they'd work in the relativly cold conditions we have...

It's quite simple really, the boat moves a bit sideways when you turn wile planing and if you have the board down it will trip over it if the boat turns just a little =P

My boats alot newer than yours but it's been used pretty heavily and it's slightly soft in cockpit and some small cracks. No biggie really =P

Ok I might have worded that wrong, they wheren't really popular anywhere untill after they had already been at the olympics once, and as far as I can see, they still arn't really overly popular anywhere (compared to other old and current olympic classes).

49ers wheren't really popular anywhere before they became an olympic class, they're only used because they do spectacular capsizes and similar shit so they get abit of TV-time.

You keep telling yourself that thats what drives the IOC, 49ers are soooooooooooo popular afterall =/

In the case of fleetracing, I really don't enjoy watching it on TV and I don't know anyone who does =P Matchracing can be quite ok but there are still quite a few sports I find more entertaining.

It has nothing to do with what's beeing used by the mass or what has international status. IOC wants TV-minutes and sailing can't really provide that, cause seriously, it ain't fun to watch sailing on TV (especialy fleetracing which is what we're usualy doing). I don't really have an answer for...

Depends on the conditions. In light airs you need to sail angles just to keep the boat going, when the breeze goes up abit, but yet not high enough to surf/plane it the gains of sailing angles becomes smaller (dead downwind still usualy aint good but you dont need very big angles). When you can...

Yeah, defently worth it for most. I sailed a long time without any though and it worked fine for me, untill we had a really long winter one year, after that it just hurt to much without them ;)

Re: Was the sailcloth actually rejected by the Victoria's Secret supplier because it Don't need mylar to get a durable sail, rather the opposite when it comes to boats this small.

I pretty much always sail in really gusty conditions and I find that you need a decent bit of vang. I might use more vang in slightly lighter airs, not sure, but I still use a decent bit of vang in heavy and gusty conditions (I figure the boom might go out in about a 45 degree angle).