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Apparently holding your elbows out in front/too high while sailing the laser can damage your shoulders as well as your grip because it pulls your scapulla out of place

I recently bought a C-Vane wind indicator for my laser to try it out because poeple had been raving about how good they were. Imagine my disapointment when, last week - after 3 weeks racing in light airs - the blade was brushed against by my painter and snapped! :mad: What really annoys me is it...

my current boat is "Salome' " (another biblical reference) after the temptress who had her suitor cut off John the Baptists head and serve it to her on a silver platter

Can you get Zhik gear in the UK?

naaaah that involves spending money...i've got a perfectly good rag of a thing for club racing and training and a few shiny new(ish) ones for nationals

in this case wouldn't it be easier to say the ILCA define a junior as anyone born in 1991 to present day (i.e under 16)

thats like £505 in the UK, over here a laser sail costs £420 ($840) and some people seem to replace them every other regatta

laser sails are made for like £2.50 (i think thats about $5) abroad now so really the price hike is ridiculous

Sounds like it's going to be awesome; now all i need is the money to get there : (

I only wear boots in the winter when it's freezing and when i'm away at events where we have to conform to club kit rules.

sureley if you were that good you wouldn't have got to that situation in the first place; you'd know how to move in the boat and to push your tiller away and pull in the sail and use the roll to turn onto the lee where the boat dosen't roll so much or is it just a case of pushing it too hard?

in reference to the laser most people over here that i speak to seem to use "vang" now because thats what the new control lines are called in the price lists

i read this in laser sailor before i read it here and it certianly made me laugh well done skipper

my boat at the moment is called "Salome Nevara" after the biblical temptress who had her lover cut of john the batists head and serve it to her on a silver platter and the "nevara" bit is laser in elvish, my last boat was "Serkel Nevara" with Serkel being both elvish for blood star (the boat was...

prevension is better than cure. sail to the lee instead of dead downwind. next time it starts deathrolling pull in the sail in, tiller towards you and use the roll to facilitate a turn off the wind do this until the boat flattens off (which i think was what dperason was trying to get at)

mine is 1216 and its deffinately built before 1973 because it has no letter code before the number. i've found the new boards wobble quite a bit in my hull and i can slide my little finger into the gap around the sides

my boat (1970/71 canadian hull) is also quite unusually stiff for its age somthing i cannot say for newer lasers which seem to go soft much faster you need to buy the foils really to get it right. one design tollerences are slim and as said before they are pretty much ok on any boat despite its...

my current boat weighs about 165/7 its an early canadian hull with more layers of re-gel than all of the others at my club and soggy flotation blocks but it's still very compeditive

that shows the standard hull fittings of later lasers but i was under the impression that they were different in the first 3 years of production. the only other boat i've ever seen of that age had a completeley different set up with little metal fairleads in odd places for parts for the...

the parts are to hand (or obtainable easily) it's just the original deck rigging system setup that i have no idea of. The boat has been brought up to date a number of times before and after i bought it and has just been retired from racing so i'm trying to restore it to the original set up for...