i have seen different types of wear plates online (carbon fiber extra slippery blah blah blah) and so i would assume anything would do, but honestly, how are they gonna know?
before i describe the blisters keep in mind that it has yet to be in the water this year and has been sitting upside down since about thanksgiving. The blisters appear to be about the size of a dime or a quarter, look the same colour as the rest of the glass (so tthat brownish sort of colour) a...
Okay, i started doing some miner work on my mast step and it turned into a huge job. My mast step was leaking cause the bottom was grinded out. At one point in time the mast step had allready been replaced, either the disk fell out or it was patched even before the disk was being put in the...
well its a toss up really, i think i would try to tape over some kind of screen, you want it to air out as well or else you could get a little rain forrest growing in there and that can cause much larger problems (delamination etc, not to mention mould and a nasty smell)
if he stored it without the access pannel covers on it then it could also be pinecones, I had pinecones, they were unpleasant to get out as they had begun to decompose...
will you get nailed if you just cut a stainless steel disk yourself or do you have to have a laser disk? I ask because the laser dealer around here is a 2.5 hr drive away and the order time is slow as molasas
Re: Most spectacular capsise?!
All you guys have some crazy racing capsizes, I haven't gotten a chance to race the boat yet as i just got my first laser a week before I left for school last summer. Anyway I get this boat for the first time and I sort of played around with it for a week, first...
Those pictures are a great help, I might rethink this job now. However I am still worried. You see, before i bought the boat it had not been sailed since probably 1995 if not longer. As any good boat owner would do the fellow mothballed it by putting it upside down in the back yard with all of...
Ok, I just joined here today, seems like a good forum and I could use some help with the laser I bought last summer. I got this laser for really really cheap but its REALLY old, sail number in the 4000's (can't remember it off the top of my head and it's at home while I'm at school). Anyway...
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