The RS100 Owners Thread

Originally posted by haroosh Originally posted by Phil J So James, do they come with any suggested rig settings (E.g. initial spreader lengths, shroud pin settings) or is it fully trial and error which I will soon be joining you in? I'm sure mine will be slightly different anyway as I'll have the smaller rig. Hi Phil, I just took delivery last Saturday and have been putting it all together for my first sail coming up this weekend. I would say the user manual is perfect for getting everything set up to a standard level that can then be tweaked in time. The instructions are much easier to follow than Ikea furniture! I am going to start with gate in middle and pins on about 3 down on the caps and then take it from there. The attention to detail on everything is superb. The thing I had not totally appretiated is the spreaders fixing to the mast allowing some level of rotation. Neat design. Cheers, Keith.

That sounds very reassuring.  Roughly how much is there to do to get it ready for a first sail ? Is it an hour or a days fiddling?

Originally posted by G.R.F. Originally posted by Martin Wadhams provided by Surf Sales, the UK Dakine distributor - owned by a well known Y&Y Forum member... And soon to be RS100 Owner.. BIrthday boy tomorrow any good news on the horizon?

Happy Birthday GRF! I reckon your 100 is just rounding the Cape of Good Hope this morning. Alex is handling the weather routeing and given favourable conditions in the Atlantic (and then time for us to wash off the salt, put a new sail with it, etc) it is on schedule to be ready for you in mid April. Hang in there a little longer please...

Originally posted by turnturtle Thanks GybeFunny- I'll do that next weekend! edit: just looked at a photo from the other week, same 'gap'... I'll try and see where the head sits after the main is pulled up fully:

Whats the halyard made of? There was a spate of 400 and 200 masts with what were referred to by many as 'elastic halyards', this was a year ago so I guess you will have a dyneema halyard but its worth checking.

Thanks for the heads up ref the Class Assoc web page - we'll chase that up.

Also referring back a few pages - the sponsorship announcement we made at the Dinghy Show was indeed that Dakine will be the title sponsors for the 2010 UK Nationals - this should be reported in the press soon - they were all at the Show.

Great to have Dakine on board - for those new to Dakine, they make top luggage and accessories for water and winter sports. They're very well known in windsurfing, snow boarding etc - and by the end of the year they will be in sailing as well! The sponsorship input is actually provided by Surf Sales, the UK Dakine distributor - owned by a well known Y&Y Forum member...

Dates for the UK Nationals are confirmed as 4 / 5 September at Parkstone, Poole.

Originally posted by turnturtle Thanks for the replies gents, here's another shot of me going upwind in underpowered conditions. Again favouring not to max out the cunningham. I also noticed that I wasn't cranking the mainsheet tension on hard either, there must be a good six-eight inches more sheet available. 22_130302_DSC01896.jpg">

Hmm I must admit if it were me in those conditions I'd be block to block..

But then what do I know and up until now had no-one to compare with,
but rumour has it we'll have three 100's in our club this season so I'll
have the benefit of class racing albeit on a limited scale, but at least it'll
be interesting to try out things against some equal opposition.

That is if I don't pass out from leg strangulation by my new hikers..