SGTLaser
New Member
Hello everyone. I was back home the last week, and got the chance to sail in the first small boat race of the year before heading back to Iraq. It is amazing what you forget when you don't sail for 7 months. Any way, it was fairly windy out but nothing close to being heavy. About 12-17kts. good wind for a laser, right? Wrong, at least not for mine and a green sailor. I made it through the first race ok, but on the second race I ripped out the rivets that hold the mainsheet blocks to the boom. My day was done. Upon a closer look at the boom, the spot where both rivets went is badly corroded. An sugestions? And further inspections revealled my mast step craking. I know what has to be done to fix that, just not looking forward to it. Anyway, any thoughts on the boom would be helpful.