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    Rolling????????????

    Our sails are rolled. I find it much easier to start at the foot and go up. There is a short piece of line in one end of my "piece o' pipe" to make this easy for one person. I don't use the mast section because my spars are stored differently and outdoors. Having a sail wrapped around it...
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    Sail Number

    the number on your sail should correspond to your hull identification #. The number is (usually) stamped on the transom. Look here for more info. Proper placement of the numbers is described here in section 4 of the class rules.
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    Practice sail from APS

    That is true to a point, but on the other hand, trying to teach the subtleties of sailing upwind and grasping the fine line between when to point and when to foot is hard to explain with a sail that doesn't have enough shape to be at least a little competitive. Boat handling is most important...
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    Laser1 rightfull owner question

    I'm curious about the "site." If it is a storage facility or yacht club, then the boat should have identification and the space fee paid current. If it's on other private property, and the owner has not kept track, at some point would this be considered abandoned? If you can't track the...
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    Practice sail from APS

    There isn't much in the way of extra funds in our sailing budget right now. My son and I have two boats that we race when we can. Neither is new, and like several of the other posts this week, one of our boats is an older one that we are upgrading a piece at a time -a block here, a cleat there...
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    removing side deck cleats

    I guess that clears up a lot. I first learned to sail in a laser in 1977, in Jr High School, sailed on and off through high school, competitively in college, and coached laser sailing at several racing clinics and yacht club programs for many years after that, and recently returned to laser...
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    when is it windy?

    Right before this picture was taken.
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    Intensity vs Seitech Laser Dolly

    My friend lives on a beach and keeps a couple of boats on the back porch ready to launch. The tires on his dolly are (deliberately) always flat. He says they have a better footprint through the sand that way. I suppose if sand is *all* they do, that's fine. One think I have noticed with yard...
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    Mainsheet Vs rear corner

    There goes our fun! I was kinda looking forward to pictures of the Laser-turned-sculpture.
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    Intensity vs Seitech Laser Dolly

    FWIW, the rail stands on the Seitech fold down for launch/retrieval also. Just not in quite the same way. My son and I launched our boats last weekend (with the Seitech dolly) on a beach we hadn't been to before. The sand was very soft/dry/deep. We were pushing hard to get the boats down the...
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    Like riding a bike, right...?

    My expert opinion on being a long time out of a laser and stepping back in... do it. You'll be glad. It was about 25 years for me. You'll remember that when you were sailing lasers often, the controls/balance/handling all felt natural. Responding to a puff or a wave, tacking and jibing, steering...
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    Mainsheet Vs rear corner

    ...waiting patiently for Merrily to throw something at me. :cool:
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    Mainsheet Vs rear corner

    Yes. In fact I'll bet a skilsaw would make short work of cutting the whole thing in two also. Both of these actions are highly discouraged. And grinding the corners will not keep the mainsheet from catching the corner of the hull. I feel your pain. and no, you don't need to over-trim when you...
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    remembering race course??

    I sail with 2 local clubs, 1 uses very friendly Windward-Leeward courses and announces how many laps (1,2,3, or "are you kidding me?") before the start. Start/Finish is in the middle of the leg. The other club uses marks all around the bay. The good news is they reuse their 2 or 3 course...
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    Laser Camping

    I hope for your sake that Fred doesn't see this. I suspect that folding chair is not 'builder-supplied" and you could be in big trouble. It's all in fun, 'til someone loses a protest. I'm just sayin' (Looks like a heck of a lot of fun though. ;) )
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    Sticky goo on sail

    I had the same thoughts, but when I bought a used sail from my local dealer, he told me that acetone is what they use to remove the numbers. I have since used acetone to clean other laser sails, and I haven't seen any adverse effects (yet). Maybe someone else has an idea here, but like I said...
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    Advice

    Interesting that the "perfect dinghy" list identified those... very different boats. There are a lot of things to consider that maybe the "take the quiz for auto-guidance" may not be evaluating completely. For instance, where are you sailing? In Southern California and Central Florida, the...
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    Two boats on Kitty Hawk trailer

    I found 1 more picture. This was taken before the pads were glued on and the boxes were painted.
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    Holidays always on the holiday date ?

    It is the same in the US. Holiday observance can be controlled by different organizations. For instance, even though Independence Day is celebrated on July 4th, each year, often with patriotic parades and fireworks displays and picnics (as it is generally summer weather), government offices, and...
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    Two boats on Kitty Hawk trailer

    I am very happy with the way ours turned out. Here are a few pictures taken with my cell-phone, so they're not really clear. They are basically just a pair of plywood boxes cut to fit the deck(s) and holes cut in the middle for the spars. I added plywood "feet" and glued pieces of foam to them...

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