Recent content by jsvrolyk

Put the flag on a stick (staple it?) and then shove the stick down the sleeve from the top before you step your mast.

fwiw, I think 3mm excel comes with the harken vang upgrade package, but I might be wrong.

I don't have any divets to fill, I just have a hairline crack that only barely catches your fingernail between the board and the piece I glued back on. After looking at it again, I think that painting it will sufficiently fill in the crack.

To revive an old thread... on my way back on the train from a regatta, someone kicked my board bag, and broke off a chip roughly 1'' long by 1/2'' wide from the trailing tip of my daggerboard. Fortunately, it was a clean break and so I just epoxied the tip back onto the daggerboard. There is...

How about double sided tape, with the side facing the board with the backing still attached? It's foam based, so it should be actually approaching 2mm. Is that "general purpose" or is that too specific?

Sailing beyond the gate (SF) in big swells and breeze, some people I know used to tie the tail of their mainsheet around their waist. If you capsize violently, you can definitely lose your grip on the sheet, and in a big swell and 25+ knots of wind, catching up to your boat is really really...

Tony - thanks very much for all the help. Hopping back in the laser (as a person finally at least quasi-big enough to sail it) after spending all my time in 420s has really made me realize how little comparatively I know about these boats... and they're not just hop in the next boat in the...

I just bought a boat at the boatlocker boat swap, 1865111, which I'm very excited about, and then later that same day participated in the Cedar point spring series, thanks to the above-and-beyond assistance of Steve Fisk, who picked me and the boat up, showed me around, helped me set up the...