Recent content by racinglasers

Yes to Starbrite!

These have been outlawed in the US but you can build your own ....

I'm sure that would work but if the tube doesn't say "marine" you won't pay as much for it!

Just put a dab of marine silicon sealant in the screw hole before attaching the bailer.

Since 1972 but not every year .......

This was excellent detail on the starting sequence in a big fleet! Thanks for posting.

This .... Every sailors dream ... you have a gybing board .... just do it legal ......

Good words ..... as long as I don't have to make another one of those insane hiking benches like I used to use for watching TV in my den .....

Thank you for this .... I've ignored the energy aspects of a long day on the water! At the 1978 (I think) Laser midwinters on Biscayne Bay we were on the water all day ....... the Coral Gables Yacht Club support boats came by and threw us a paper bag lunch which of course landed in the salt...

The key is just to get some dry, preferably warm air flowing through the hull. I brought a hull inside my house once after moving out from parents and before being married. If you are married or living with parents this tactic might get you kicked out to the shed.

OK I need help .... I admit it. I'm 63 .... run 3 miles several days a week, bicycle 10 - 20 miles, kayak for 60 minutes upstream and back home, weight machines at the athletic club, ..... the darn Laser wears me out sailing more than four or five 45 minute races in an afternoon ...... do I...

Works for me!

Good article .... I'm a wet suit kinda guy. Progressively as it gets colder, thin wet suit shorts (1 mm), shorty wet suit, farmer john 3 mm, add a wet suit top, spray top, wet suit boots. NRS has a great line of limestone based wet suit products made for kayaking that are moderately priced...

A full beer can does make a handy wind velocity indicator though. Set on top of a piling at the dock, ......... if it blows off its probably too windy for the full rig.

If the cleaner doesn't get it up to your spec don't hesitate to get out the 400 or 600 wet sandpaper and go over the hull with this.