sure1!!! lasers work great in day sailing and you dont need to pay much attention to sail controls, just dont forget to let off the vang downwind to avoid broken masts:rolleyes:
if its a new laser, then there will be a sticker on the back of the cockpit that has a number on it going 19xxxx. if its older, then its on the serial number and there are many, many theads on how to read it
one thing about that system, that if something breaks, which it will over time, it will be harder to replace. Say your rivit pops out of the boom, which is keeping your outhaul together, then what? this is alot harder to fix than a line breaking. your stuck in the middle of a race with no way...
well there is a proposed rule change to make outhaul systems like this leagle. There is a theard on these changes in the class politics forum. Personsally, i like to be able to remove my blocks from my system, i dont know why, but hey, whatever floats your boat!
how far is your centerboard coming up? you dont want it as high as it is while on a run, but you also want it to be a up for reduced drag. i would say put it up about 6 inches? also, you vang should be so that the leech is a little open, but not so its spilling out all your air.
The thing which i noticed to be your biggest problem was your gybes. this is a problem for me also. you are not sheeting though your gybes enough, and over steering, causing you to gybe really high, instead of pretty much DDW. what you want to do is initiate the gybe with your body weight...
this used to happen to me alot during the summer. all you have to do is sheet less violently. its hard to find that balnce between getting caught on the transom and the boom but just do a million gybes and youll figure it out
i settled on the rooster mainsheet about 2 weeks ago now, and it is much better than my old one. i got it in 7 mm and does not tangle, plus it is thick enough so that it doesnt slip out of my hand when going upwind.
thanks for the suggestions!
Matt
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