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I have a 1973 green hull and it had that chalky look too. I wet sanded the bottom I mostly followed the directions for a smooth hull in the FAQ section of the forum - but I skipped the gel coat filling (I doubt I could get a good color match anyway). So it still has the scratches and pits, it's...

This happened to me several weeks ago - my mainsheet block and hiking strap were suddenly hanging off the mainsheet! Fortunately it was near the end of the race with light winds & I held my place for the finish. I stuffed a small piece of foam down the holes to plug the bottom and filled the...

Thanks for all the replies. I thought some shaping to get a tight fit would be a good thing. My shaping may be a little more than most - mostly the sides at top of the wedge. Glad to have some experts to check with before I started hacking!

I have a 1973 Laser with the wooden rudder, centerboard and tiller. Last week I broke the tiller during the 2nd death roll. I got a new one but the wedge is a little too large to fit in the rudder head. I can grind it down to fit, but wondering if that's normal. Maybe the early rudders were made...

Our fleet had a great racing day this weekend. The weather reports had the wind at 15-20 with gusts to 25 mph. I normally watch the wind indicator attempting to sail the best course, but I had my hands full so did not look at it very often. But I did notice going downwind several times that the...

I have a '73 with the same green color - 3569

I had that problem one time and was thinking about using a shim. before I got around to doing that, the lower rudder gudgeon fell off. After replacing it - the problems was solved - no shim needed! So I would check the gudgeons first.

This was my first year racing and many times I found myself losings positions on the upwind legs. I added a windvane midseason (Kingfisher I believe)and found it helped me be more consistant on those upwind legs

I have noticed the oblong hole at the deck level and have wondered why it's done that way. Does anybody know?