As an old time laser sailor who came back to the class, I welcome the greater control of the basic sailing controls. However, rigging the boat is more of a pain. I ordered the clew sleeve as launching the boat and pulling it out again is a lot easier if you can just keep the clew of the boom...
Hi Merrily:
I just put an order for the new Boom Sleeve. Thanks for the pictures. I couldn't figure out how the line is looped through the cleat on the boom. It seems that the "block" is tied off and then led through the block coming from the clew line, fed through the cleat and then back...
I am 54 and this year I got back into sailing Lasers after a 25 year lay-off. Sailing this boat in a breeze is much harder than I ever remembered. I have done several death rolls and I seem to suffer massive bruising on my arms when I am trying to right the boat. This didn't happen to me in...
I recently came back to the class after 27 years. I managed to turtle my boat going through start finish line and it took a lot of time and outside assistance to get it upright. By the time I got the daggerboard back in and got on top of the boat, it just would not come up. Later when I got...
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