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The rivet holding the plastic wedge onto the end of my (stock aluminum) tiller broke; I brought the tiller and the wedge home to re-rivet them, and now I see that the wedge is asymmetrical and without the boat I can't tell which end is up. None of the pictures I could find on the web were...

Our 3rd annual "Pre-Freeze" regatta and BBQ will be held on Sunday, November 9th, at the Cottage Park YC, near Logan Airport. 1st gun is at 1:00 PM. All are welcome. This is informal short-course racing at its best: a convenient venue, a welcoming crowd, and a good fleet. Just show up with...

Having left the forum a while back over misbehavior by the moderators, I thought I'd come back -- and within a day I see that, no longer content to simply delete postings you don't like, it now seems you're actually silently changing other people's content without asking them or telling them...

The second annual Pre-Freeze Regatta and BBQ will be held in Winthrop, MA, a few miles from Boston's Logan Airport on Sunday, November 4th. Last year's event drew 25 Lasers and kicked off a great winter of frostbiting. With the weather we've been having lately, it'll be bathing suits rather...

Today's locking of the Brodie Cobb thread means that this is not the place for me. I have no beef with Bradley and nothing but thanks for his running the forum -- it's his forum, he can run it however he wants, and he's certainly doing a big service to the Laser community by hosting it...

Please don't rehash the arguments here (there's a separate thread for that). What I want to know is whether or not your local fleet has established an official position on the Intensity sail.

Join us for our season kickoff "Pre-freeze" regatta on Sunday, October 29th. This is a Laser/Laser Radial Regatta, so grab your boats and wetsuits and come on down to help us kick off the frostbiting season, compete for great trophies and chill with us for a BBQ on the deck at CPYC If you...

Where are the bylaws on the class website, and why does a site search on the word "bylaws" turn up nothing?

Voting on the new rules closes July 31. I encourage those of you who are paid-up class members (that should be all of us), to go to http://www.laserinternational.org/rules2006.htm and vote. I'm planning to vote against the proposed rule change on a matter of principle. I like...

Anybody know if the supposedly-safe-on-fiberglass paint strippers are OK to use on Laser rudders and daggerboards that have been (badly) painted? Barring that, does anybody know specifically what kind of foam they are made of?

I understand that the principle of the class rules is to make as sure as possible that it's the sailor who wins the race, not the boat. I think that is part of what has attracted a lot of us to the class. All over the rules, there are various prohibitions against doing anything "to...

This brought on by the "launching from powerboat ramps" thread -- and by the fact that until Saturday I had always launched my boat off the dolly fully rigged and had never before rigged on the water. It wasn't super windy (16 knots) but still it took me a good 10 minutes to corral the...

Taking one step further into madness, I have decided to try frostbiting this winter. Here in Boston, Cottage Park Yacht Club is reputed to run a very nice frostbiting series in Lasers and Interclubs. It's convenient; friendly; there's good racing; and by midafternoon you're done and...

So, deep reaches, dead downwind, by-the-lee.... I have my aft leg over the hiking strap, with my knee bent, my lower leg pointing back towards me, the sole of my foot planted against the cockpit sidewall right under my butt, and my knee jammed against the opposite cockpit sidewall. My...

The skin on my my blades was wearing a bit thin in places so I prepped carefully and painted with spray acrylic (Rust-Oleum's premium band) over the compatible grey primer. I'm pretty disappointed in the results -- the surface is quite a bit softer than I expected -- maybe I should not have...

Beat-up old hull -- gelcoat so thin in places you can see the glass. Refinished with epoxy paint. Paint is arguably "improved beyond the original" in that it is more durable, but it certainly isn't any faster than good gelcoat. Legal?

Is there any way to tell if my old boom has the stiffener sleeve in it, without removing the end caps (they seem to be riveted on) and looking in?

First of all, you don't owe us a damn thing. In fact, it's the other way around: we all, collectively, owe you a lot for everything you've done for the class. And DrLaser was a hobby, a strictly voluntary contribution to the sport on your part. If you got sick of running the site, or sick...

I got to wondering about this based on another thread. For how long can you really and truly straight-leg -- body completely flat to the water, butt way out from the rail? Let me see if I can post a poll....

What is the skinny pink line that is supplied in the Vanguard cunningham / outhaul upgrade? Amsteel, maybe? Can it be eye-spliced? Also, can you eye-splice Maffioli Swiftcord?