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    Newbie Sailor (with kids)

    I help teach sailing at my yacht club and since you live in Australia (i presume, from the mention of Sydney), i recommended a pacer or a 125. Both are 2 or 3 person boats and pacers are what we use for the trainees. http://www.pacersailing.org.au/ They have a small spinaker,jib and are fairly...
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    Aussie Laser Sailors

    Hi I sail at Chelsea yacht club in Victoria I only just started sailing a laser and am loving it.
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    Best way to deal with an incident on board

    Thank you very much everyone Unfortunately the tiller snapped off in the rudder box so there was absolutely nothing i could do in the way of steering. I was relatively comfortable in the wavs as it is what i am used to sailing in having only ever sailed from Chelsea. The eye/saddle thing that...
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    Best way to deal with an incident on board

    I was wondering what the best way to deal with issues on board when in other boats the sail would be dropped and the boat towed in. I'm a new laser sailor, been sailing for 4 or 5 years but only just got my hands on a laser and i had my first major incident today. It was blowing 18-20 knots with...
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    Afraid of racing!

    Don't worry about coming last! It doesn't matter because although you may come last in this regatta, you learnt from it and, in a few more races you will be inching your way up as you learn from the experienced sailors. A good aim is to not lose by as much, if you are going to lose as you no...

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