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    Car Top Transport

    They are indeed spars. It was my attempt at a joke indicating that I had forgotten to mention where I put the spars.
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    Car Top Transport

    Spars? What's a spar? Opps. In my case all 12 spars (3 boats with radial and full rigs) were lashed to the boats on the trailer. But I am fairly confident that there was enough of the thule cross bars left to lash the spars to. If you go with Thule, make sure you realize the cross bars come...
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    Car Top Transport

    I move three lasers from home to vacation using two on a trailer and one on the roof. I have a larger Odyssey wagon, but the Subaru should work just fine. I purchased a set of Thule racks that match my car. I purchased the extra long bars that are several inches wider than the hull. I put...
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    broken mast

    It took me a while to figure this out. The boat that has a mast failure is not the boat featured in the center of the frame. Look at the boats behind to see the demasting. I have only had one mast failure and that was the traditional break of the upper right at the junction. I was hiking out...
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    Advice to Newbs - Lessons learned from first sail

    Docking in some locations can be very difficult if the dock/pier is designed for larger boats. Unless you approach from downwind and can simply nose the boat to the dock with your sail luffing, you are ok. But often you end up upwind and when against the dock the sail can't luff because the boom...
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    Cockpit drain and rear bulkhead repair

    My mast step held water as well, but when I inspected where the mast tube connects to the hull that was less than ideal. In the hull they mold a wood block with a hole in it. They then butter this up in glue when bondind the deck and the hull together. In my case, all this glue had become...
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    Cockpit drain and rear bulkhead repair

    Those glue chunks look like what I saw broken up and loose around the mast steps of two old boats I bought. I followed similar instructions of mixing putty like bonding agent and fiberglass cloth. My repairs were dificult as I only had one deck plate at arms length from the repair area. If I...
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    How was your first Laser regatta/racing experience?

    First race was in 1979 on Lake Erie. The race managers gave us a course fit for an IOR fleet. Standing in the boat, the windward mark was bellow the horizon. By timming my port and starboard tacks I managed to find the windward mark first. But not having a compass had to wait for the rest of the...
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    No wood backer blocks for deck cleats

    I am not an adhesive kind of guy. I like the idea of being able to take things apart to fix, repair, or modify. But push comes to shove ...
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    No wood backer blocks for deck cleats

    Not an electrician, but certainly willing to steal ideas from them. I called a Laser dealer and they recommended "Well Nuts". A rubber grommet device like a Molley bolt. Not sure I like this solution very much. The other solution is to cut a slot in the deck and drop the block through it...
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    No wood backer blocks for deck cleats

    I have two OLD sailboats (6570 and 6575) built in Canada in 1973. These boats have mahagony foils and grab rails. Both boats are built like a tank. But neither boat has the wood blocks molded into the deck for mainsheet cleats! Both boats have two deck plates. One in the center of the stern...

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