Our sails are rolled. I find it much easier to start at the foot and go up. There is a short piece of line in one end of my "piece o' pipe" to make this easy for one person.
I don't use the mast section because my spars are stored differently and outdoors. Having a sail wrapped around it...
the number on your sail should correspond to your hull identification #.
The number is (usually) stamped on the transom. Look here for more info.
Proper placement of the numbers is described here in section 4 of the class rules.
That is true to a point, but on the other hand, trying to teach the subtleties of sailing upwind and grasping the fine line between when to point and when to foot is hard to explain with a sail that doesn't have enough shape to be at least a little competitive. Boat handling is most important...
I'm curious about the "site." If it is a storage facility or yacht club, then the boat should have identification and the space fee paid current. If it's on other private property, and the owner has not kept track, at some point would this be considered abandoned?
If you can't track the...
There isn't much in the way of extra funds in our sailing budget right now. My son and I have two boats that we race when we can. Neither is new, and like several of the other posts this week, one of our boats is an older one that we are upgrading a piece at a time -a block here, a cleat there...
I guess that clears up a lot.
I first learned to sail in a laser in 1977, in Jr High School, sailed on and off through high school, competitively in college, and coached laser sailing at several racing clinics and yacht club programs for many years after that, and recently returned to laser...
My friend lives on a beach and keeps a couple of boats on the back porch ready to launch. The tires on his dolly are (deliberately) always flat. He says they have a better footprint through the sand that way. I suppose if sand is *all* they do, that's fine.
One think I have noticed with yard...
FWIW, the rail stands on the Seitech fold down for launch/retrieval also. Just not in quite the same way.
My son and I launched our boats last weekend (with the Seitech dolly) on a beach we hadn't been to before. The sand was very soft/dry/deep. We were pushing hard to get the boats down the...
My expert opinion on being a long time out of a laser and stepping back in... do it. You'll be glad. It was about 25 years for me. You'll remember that when you were sailing lasers often, the controls/balance/handling all felt natural. Responding to a puff or a wave, tacking and jibing, steering...
Yes. In fact I'll bet a skilsaw would make short work of cutting the whole thing in two also. Both of these actions are highly discouraged. And grinding the corners will not keep the mainsheet from catching the corner of the hull.
I feel your pain. and no, you don't need to over-trim when you...
I sail with 2 local clubs, 1 uses very friendly Windward-Leeward courses and announces how many laps (1,2,3, or "are you kidding me?") before the start. Start/Finish is in the middle of the leg.
The other club uses marks all around the bay. The good news is they reuse their 2 or 3 course...
I hope for your sake that Fred doesn't see this. I suspect that folding chair is not 'builder-supplied" and you could be in big trouble.
It's all in fun, 'til someone loses a protest.
I'm just sayin'
(Looks like a heck of a lot of fun though. ;) )
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