Recent content by Dutchlaser

Downwind your sail should be like a gennaker, so everything is just as loose as possible (outhaul, cunningham) There is only some tension on the vang.

Oh yes, I do spend a lot of time in the coffeeshop. Though, I would prefer living there, instead of your cave with no one to talk to. I have learned the rules about compasses from guys that have a lot of experience with judging international laser regattas, and therefore they know every rule...

I'm sure that the rule has been introduced cause of the magnetic influence from a digital compass to another. Since a few years there are digital compasses in the market with a lot of functions as well.

I prefer the Silva 103RE Compass, it has many good features, like different colours and it's easy to use with the numbers. (www.silva.se) It must be mounted on a so called compass spider, a plate around the cleats on your deck. As far as I know, digital compasses are not allowed, because...

I've never seen em in europe either...

Yea I've been visiting some other good, mostly US, sites, but many watches are not available here in holland, or for sky high prices.. They don't even have the full casio collection here

i think you can start a new hype with this. For the kids, you can use 4.7 rigs

Nice job aussies, cong

not that cool, I'd rather keep my own sail when it's the most important race...but for equal racing it's a fair idea.

I believe that headers & lifts in gusts are in the opposite way on the southern half, I mean in australia and areas around there, because "high pressure areas" (dunno if this is the right word for it but i hope you know what i mean) move anti-clockwise.

I have used a casio watch for 7 years now and i liked it very much, but i had to be repaired quite a lot. I was looking at the local jewelery store for a new casio, but they didn't even have the new collection.... So the search began for a new watch and I find it quite hard to judge the...

That is not funny man, it better be very good then :)

slingsby is not doing bad at all in the laser, he has been winning a LOT of cups recently. I Don't think that you can draw your conclusion out of the result of one 4.7 world championship.

I rig my boat onshore, just make sure you do it 5 minutes before you launch your boat off the slibway, otherwise it'll damage your sail.

Re: OK - whats this? So, we know what the box on her mast is. But who knows what the white stuff on her nose is , someone please tell me :p