Apparently holding your elbows out in front/too high while sailing the laser can damage your shoulders as well as your grip because it pulls your scapulla out of place
I recently bought a C-Vane wind indicator for my laser to try it out because poeple had been raving about how good they were. Imagine my disapointment when, last week - after 3 weeks racing in light airs - the blade was brushed against by my painter and snapped! :mad: What really annoys me is it...
my current boat is "Salome' " (another biblical reference) after the temptress who had her suitor cut off John the Baptists head and serve it to her on a silver platter
naaaah that involves spending money...i've got a perfectly good rag of a thing for club racing and training and a few shiny new(ish) ones for nationals
sureley if you were that good you wouldn't have got to that situation in the first place; you'd know how to move in the boat and to push your tiller away and pull in the sail and use the roll to turn onto the lee where the boat dosen't roll so much or is it just a case of pushing it too hard?
in reference to the laser most people over here that i speak to seem to use "vang" now because thats what the new control lines are called in the price lists
my boat at the moment is called "Salome Nevara" after the biblical temptress who had her lover cut of john the batists head and serve it to her on a silver platter and the "nevara" bit is laser in elvish, my last boat was "Serkel Nevara" with Serkel being both elvish for blood star (the boat was...
prevension is better than cure. sail to the lee instead of dead downwind. next time it starts deathrolling pull in the sail in, tiller towards you and use the roll to facilitate a turn off the wind do this until the boat flattens off (which i think was what dperason was trying to get at)
mine is 1216 and its deffinately built before 1973 because it has no letter code before the number. i've found the new boards wobble quite a bit in my hull and i can slide my little finger into the gap around the sides
my boat (1970/71 canadian hull) is also quite unusually stiff for its age somthing i cannot say for newer lasers which seem to go soft much faster
you need to buy the foils really to get it right. one design tollerences are slim and as said before they are pretty much ok on any boat despite its...
my current boat weighs about 165/7 its an early canadian hull with more layers of re-gel than all of the others at my club and soggy flotation blocks but it's still very compeditive
that shows the standard hull fittings of later lasers but i was under the impression that they were different in the first 3 years of production. the only other boat i've ever seen of that age had a completeley different set up with little metal fairleads in odd places
for parts for the...
the parts are to hand (or obtainable easily) it's just the original deck rigging system setup that i have no idea of. The boat has been brought up to date a number of times before and after i bought it and has just been retired from racing so i'm trying to restore it to the original set up for...
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