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We also have no idea how water tight the boat is either... You don't want to sail a Titanic.

That boat is not in good shape and personally I think it would be more work to get the boat in acceptable shape again then what the Laser is worth.

Walk away empty handed.

I take it out. It's the first thing I do when I start rigging (outside). At my club, there is some petty theft so I air on the safe side here in sunny CA.

You should go back and restart anyway if you are over.

My boat was lucky to come with both the new Allen and the Harken. I did a performance test in 20 knots and 3 ft. chop, and the Harken model felt more responsive and far stronger. The Allen model felt cheaply built and was much harder to pull on. Same condition and line on both. Make sure that...

All the hulls are the same. 3. No. 4. For the controls, upwind crank on the kicker and cunningham, if you're light use a tight outhaul. Downwind no outhaul or cunningham, just a little kicker.

I think a good Vanguard will top a bad LP and vice versa. That said, I've always been happy with the later Vanguards (06-08). I have a 2008. Another note is that it's very important to have a good, functional rigging system.

The problem is that the sails of which you speak of aren't that common, clearly not common enough or more people would do what you suggest.

I'm not sure what you mean by that LaLi.

Just because a club does not enforce the sail rules does not make them incompetent, ignorant, or lazy. It can simply mean that they have their priorities on sailing and not supporting the monopoly that is the new class legal sail market.

That is exactly what I said.

Because ILCA wants to eliminate the advantage between other boats.

And Olympic hopefuls are the new standard for equipment equality or lack thereof? I don't think the average 35 year old hull is as fast as the average 7 year old one. The older one is simply heavier, and, as you rightly say, more of a challenge to sail well, which means that the odds are that...

It means that that it is far less likely for AlanD's point to happen. Essentially, yes. Many of the rules do not regulate advantages over other boats. In fact, the boat in question would be at the disadvantage. Not really one design. On a side note, I would imagine that some of us break a rule...