Recent content by suthera

I am a grass roots sailor. I believe the ILCA class support is fine - nothing else required. As a grass roots sailor, I can tell you the biggest impediment to developing our sport is stupid old white men arguing needlessly. In their desperation for attention, they fail to stop and consider...

Yup - that’s a pretty good description of what my tacks try to be like.

Thanks for that. In all honestly, I’m often so tired that if my back foot is on the windward side going into the tack as per this photo, I would trip over the toe strap when I try to cross the boat. Having my foot over the toe strap on the way into the tack allows me to kind of fall into the...

I don’t get this picture. I know who it is and would never doubt his technique, but why is his foot not to leeward of the toe strap? I’m assuming this is the entry into the tack. I stretch my leg out to the back of the cockpit as described, but have my foot over the toe strap. Once the boom...

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I've used zhik powerpad for years and recently started using SEA waist lock. The ZHIK power pads can be very good. After the effort of getting the things on, they are very comfortable and in no way restrictive. The downside is that the pads are prone to sliping down towards the knee. Seems...

Hi Guys, Thanks for the useful responses. In short - I don;t have my cunno down one side, I always double check the sail is on straight at the top, and while the outhaul being led down one side only will be a small issue - I think I have a bigger problem. I am pretty sure that I am pulling...

Various sources confirm that when the breeze comes on, the outhaul on a Radial should be pulled in to between 2 inches off the boom, and one fist off the boom (I think these are standard settings which also apply to Full rigs). Several sources have confirmed that the outhaul should never be so...

Does anyone else think that was a really good news letter (For June 2012)? I’m not really interested in reading about a report about a regatta that happened months ago. Good to see that they haven’t bothered with regatta reports and instead give a report on the world council meeting, with...

..........SFBay laser http://www.laserinternational.org/info/ilcaelectsnewpresident Does this mean that ILCA members might actualy be told what is happening in their class now, or will one of the few avenues of information from inside the class association now dissapear with this news?

Rumor doing the rounds at Masters worlds in Brisbane - new full rig sail and carbon top section pretty much approved by all parties but no word on a delivery date. Also whispers that the US / Europe builder is broke and a replacement manafacturer is being sought. I don't know how accurate this...

I have been in several big fleet starts where the black flag has gone up because the tide has pushed the fleet over for multiple general recalls. The technique for such a start is to pick an end and start there. Do not start in the middle. Chances are that there will be a large mid line...

AlanD As always, your views, based on your considerable experience with the class, are appreciated on this forum by readers such as myself. But, for complete thick-ends like myself, can you re-express your last post in terms that those of us who don’t get tantalised by Metallurgy might...

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Perth-2011---Not-always-happy-families-on-Olympic-class-sailing-scene/90560 So now I’m really confused. I feel the need to be upset at someone, but my poor little brain isn’t capable of working out who. Can someone, more intelligent than myself, please...

Come on Alan mate - you can't leave us hanging like that. Give us a clue or drop us a PM?