JPop
New Member
Hey there friends,
I bought a very old Laser 2 last year and have slowly watched the parts disintegrate. I don't know the year, but I know it has the screw hatch only on the transom (not on the bulkhead), the main halyard enters the mast on the lower portion, no spinnaker launch tube, and both halyards are wire/rope. I've poked around here looking for answers but can't find answers to the questions below. Thanks to whomever posted years ago about Super Chute and Andersen bailers, I at least replaced the leaking bailer! Plus thanks to you all I fixed the wrongly threaded rudder downhaul... which unfortunately is already frayed but that's a problem for another day.
Questions:
The tiller is wood and very flexible. I'd love to replace it but I'm not sure what factory length on it is. If you were replacing the tiller, would you go for a Laser tiller? Is it substantively shorter? Any other one designs that might fit?
I want to replace the halyards. Is it possible/advisable to replace the wire/rope ones with all good rope?
The previous owner gave me a chute but no rigging whatsoever for it - he "lost" the pole and there are no sheets/halyard/etc. Did the older Laser 2s have a combined jib/spinnaker halyard? Or were they separate? I don't seem to have any rigging for a halyard, but I have all the other hardware.
I'm used to trap wires that have some kind of basic attachment to the deck so that if they get loose they don't go whipping around. This boat doesn't have anything like that. Has anyone figured out a rigging solution to somehow bungee the trap wires on to the deck when not being used?
The only cleat for the jib halyard
Thanks for any help!
I bought a very old Laser 2 last year and have slowly watched the parts disintegrate. I don't know the year, but I know it has the screw hatch only on the transom (not on the bulkhead), the main halyard enters the mast on the lower portion, no spinnaker launch tube, and both halyards are wire/rope. I've poked around here looking for answers but can't find answers to the questions below. Thanks to whomever posted years ago about Super Chute and Andersen bailers, I at least replaced the leaking bailer! Plus thanks to you all I fixed the wrongly threaded rudder downhaul... which unfortunately is already frayed but that's a problem for another day.
Questions:
The tiller is wood and very flexible. I'd love to replace it but I'm not sure what factory length on it is. If you were replacing the tiller, would you go for a Laser tiller? Is it substantively shorter? Any other one designs that might fit?
I want to replace the halyards. Is it possible/advisable to replace the wire/rope ones with all good rope?
The previous owner gave me a chute but no rigging whatsoever for it - he "lost" the pole and there are no sheets/halyard/etc. Did the older Laser 2s have a combined jib/spinnaker halyard? Or were they separate? I don't seem to have any rigging for a halyard, but I have all the other hardware.
I'm used to trap wires that have some kind of basic attachment to the deck so that if they get loose they don't go whipping around. This boat doesn't have anything like that. Has anyone figured out a rigging solution to somehow bungee the trap wires on to the deck when not being used?
The only cleat for the jib halyard
Thanks for any help!