Recent content by peterl

Hi, I'm not sure if this really answers your question or not, but you can see this effect if you take a piece of cloth, say a small towel, and pull along one edge of the cloth by holding a corner in each hand. You will then see material get pulled in the perpendicular direction to form a "bag"...

Sorry Sailchris, I have to disagree here. Admittedly I'm a "mid to back of the fleet" sailor anyway, but I have never thought of the laser as "just a racing machine". Ever since I first saw one about 30 years ago, I always thought the laser was the prettiest looking small sailboat I'd ever seen...

I wear a hat (fishing style, I guess you'd call it) that has a little zip pocket, where I store the key. This hat has a strap that goes under my chin, to keep it from blowing away. Alternatively tie your key to one of the hiking strap eyes in the rear of the cockpit. Peter

I also had distintegrating "cubitainers" in my 88 boat, which I've owned since new. However I think it was just the 2 (maybe 3) that were rolling around near the bow that were affected. There are also 2 or 3 containers trapped behind the cockpit that appear to be intact, as far as I can tell...

If you're getting your own shipping container, 1 laser takes up a relatively small percentage of the volume. I did a similar move about 4 years ago, and my boat was cocooned in some padded wrapping material and put on its gunwhale on one side of the container. It was also tied to hooks to...