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Ok, just rigged the shock cord and it seems to be way too long. By several feet. I am used to the 470 trap system and this all seems pretty clunky! We have the jib halyard hook. The wire loop attached to the rope tail is a good 3" short of getting there even when the sail is fully hoisted...

Thanks so much! My boat is on drydock - I'll go down and get some photo/video over our long weekend. I do think whatever is supposed to secure the jib halyard is just plain old not there. Pretty stoked that I just got a new tiller, some shockcord, and some other bits. Gonna make this all...

THANK YOU for all of this! (Yes, we did have a "combined" halyard on some dinghy I sailed in the 80s-90s... ugh, what was it?) I'll check that sheave at the mast top. What you say makes sense, of course! The cleating/locking system is what I started writing about but hit return or...

Hey there friends, I bought a very old Laser 2 last year and have slowly watched the parts disintegrate. I don't know the year, but I know it has the screw hatch only on the transom (not on the bulkhead), the main halyard enters the mast on the lower portion, no spinnaker launch tube, and both...

In '94-'96 I sailed a rainbow Laser out of Milwaukee- it had the rainbow on the sail but then the rainbow stripes were on the side of the hull instead of on the deck, if I remember correctly. Maybe one of you all is sailing the one I had :) The other kids in sailing school used to make fun of...