The RS100 Owners Thread

Originally posted by Doug.H Originally posted by Slippery Jim Let´s keep it simple simon undergraduate-like then. Or we stop talking about "S-curve-give-a-sh*t" when we can simplify it with one sentence - When it gets windy my arm gets tired more quickly regardless of what boat I sail. We've all sailed plenty of different boats yet no one is jumping up saying "yeah mate, I felt exactly what you're talking about". So maybe, just maybe whatever fancy equation you've thrown at it, in the reality of actually sailing, it counts for dick all.

I humbly apologise for any reason to have motivated you use defamatory
and aggressive language on this forum when I was clearly showing signs
of being fed up with not having my question understood.

Perhaps you should reconsider your tone. Experience - luckily second
hand - has shown me that the verbal assailant wakes up a few hours later
in hospital with multiple, severe injuries, such as glass in the face, neck,
stabbing wounds, baseball bat bludgeons and so on. I know you can hide
behind your monitor sniggering, but my advice to you is to save the talk
about dicks for when you need to use your own for the right reasons and
otherwise not to take that type of language out in public.

Shalom and good night



Edited by Slippery Jim

Originally posted by Slippery Jim Let´s keep it simple simon undergraduate-like then.

deleted as I was being a dick, as can be seen in the quote box below.

Edited by Doug.H

Originally posted by Slippery Jim Originally posted by laser193713 You can keep your drag curves, 59ers and 4000s! The mainsheet loads should in theory be similar or slightly lighter than a laser im guessing. Lighther perhaps because the kicker will be more effective without a pathetic aluminium bendy boom.  The sheet loads will all depend on whether it turns out to be faster to sail the boat with lots of kicker or not.  I have not managed to see whether they have bothered with ratchets on the kite sheets, the blocks look small in all the photos but that doesnt mean they arent ratchets and all the close up shots seem to conveniently cover or not show the blocks!  I know someone on here knows the answer! I want to keep my drag curve as it is anyway, for obvious reasons! As far as I can remember, the Laser5000 mainsheet loads increase very suddenly coming onto the plane, since the drag curve is like that. The loads on the 59er are about 1/2 that of a standard laser. As for ally boom and its effectiveness and the use of the kicker, it all depends which tool you use to change the sail profile etc. and this varies from boat to boat. This has very little to do with my question though, since once you ´ve got the sail apparently set right with the kicker or whatever you use, my question still remains. We also use Harken ratchets on the 59er spinnaker sheet, since the loads are quite high.

What i meant was the answer to the mainsheet loads question has a lot of variables, depending mainly on kicker tension and wind strength. So there is no real answer.

And high kite loads even with a linear drag curve  

The RS100 does come with ratchet blocks for the spinnaker sheets.

You can keep your drag curves, 59ers and 4000s! The mainsheet loads should in theory be similar or slightly lighter than a laser im guessing. Lighther perhaps because the kicker will be more effective without a pathetic aluminium bendy boom.  The sheet loads will all depend on whether it turns out to be faster to sail the boat with lots of kicker or not.  I have not managed to see whether they have bothered with ratchets on the kite sheets, the blocks look small in all the photos but that doesnt mean they arent ratchets and all the close up shots seem to conveniently cover or not show the blocks!  I know someone on here knows the answer!