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I'm in the market for a laser. Need to see all the gear: tiller & ext carbon? vang harken? condition of sails. Sail #?

David Mendelblatt is #3948. This is a partial reef. If you look closely at the jens. The jens is one clip plus the amount of reef. Note too he moved his gooseneck forward to 16" in his setup. http://dunks.smugmug.com/SAIL-BOAT-RACING/SUNFISH-WORLDS-2009/10026689_2L6U6#688868932_e83pY TW

This would be the first reef. Notice the ruler is 2" below the thimble.

ok, I took the sail off so both side of the sail can be seen. This is the sail before a reef. The hole in the ruler is where the cunningham grommet would be. Its about 1" above the thimble.

The presumption is that you've already put in a jens which lowers the halyard below the tie. Depends on your jens setup as the Gust Adjust would not work with the tie. Some sail without this sail tie at this location. I took pics and I'll get them posted but I have to reduce the pic sizes...

First of all the reef system has been in use for years now and does NOT require another cleat. I use this setup which consists of a 25’ line going to the top of the spar to adjust the sail vs the traditional cunningham setup. To lower the sail, you easy off the top ( with the cleat on the...

David Loring still leads after Day 3 of races 1 David Loring SC 2 Marx Chirinos Venezuela 3 PJ Patin NY 4 David Mendelblat FL 5 Peter Stanton Virgin Isl 6 Juan Hurtado Guatemala 7 Ard van Aanholt Curacao 8 Malcom Smith Bermuda 9 Mathieu de Bij Holland 10 Cor van Aanholt 11 Greg Gust...

I put a 8" plastic horn cleat on the front of my dolly. The cleat has a closed hole in the middle so I leave 3' line attached to secure the boat. Works great!

I started sailing in the mid 60’s. My parents when out and bought used sunfish and as we starting racing, they bought us better equipment and gear to upgrade our Sunfish including $150.00 to change to the new rudder systems back in 1971 which was a huge change but well worth the money as it...