laser45radial
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Looks like good stuff. Doesn't cost too much, either.
Very skeptical about this. You'd have two extra useless (harmful actually as it's more likely to tangle) metres of rope on the bottom of the cockpit all the time, which would be only marginally helpful in rare special situations, maybe. Also, "boom more than 90° out in overpowered conditions" sounds a lot like "death roll".15.5m
It actually works really well. Death rolls really only occur when the boom is at about 90 deg, so once the boom is out further the boat becomes stable again. The technique of letting the boom out fully forward has been happening since the 70's, but being able to pull the sail on when you needed to alter course was my modification. The club I sailed out of at the time was about 1km down a very narrow L shaped bay,when fronts rolled in the wind would funnel straight down the length of the bay, but you still needed to reach 100m around to where the club wash less you wanted to end up on the rocks. The technique has been used in 50 knots in open water and 35 knots in a race when the majority were upside down trying to run square in a narrowish bay. As far the excess rope, Lasers is all about rope management when approaching the top mark, check that there are no tangles, the rest of the course it becomes largely irrelevant and a 12 m sheet is just as likely to tangle as a 16 m one, when all but 4 mis loose in the cockpit.Very skeptical about this. You'd have two extra useless (harmful actually as it's more likely to tangle) metres of rope on the bottom of the cockpit all the time, which would be only marginally helpful in rare special situations, maybe. Also, "boom more than 90° out in overpowered conditions" sounds a lot like "death roll".