The RS100 Owners Thread

Originally posted by Inland sea Cheers Jim ... and if the 100 rig is anything like as clever in it's design it will be very easy to sail quick as once set right the rig does so much work for you you can get your head out of the boat and really enjoy! Downhaul outhaul try this:- found here:- http://www.sailboats.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=456150   edit    oops cross post ... caught me working you lot didn't you!!

I put one of these on our 4K (nicked idea from TT). Unfortunately it lasted two outings before it splayed open and fell awft.

That may be more to do with the amount of cunningham purchase on the 4k though??

Originally posted by SimonW99 Two loops round the sail and a half hitch with a stop knot, worked for years and has come undone not once

A agree. I snapped a total of three halyards on two
different boats one year using a bobble.

Stopped using them and went over to the two turns and two
half hitches and have never been let down again. And
being a light weight I punish the Cunningham more than
many!

Ian
RS100 133

But shirley a carbon fibre bobble adds performance?

[QUOTE=asterix]

I am also using a bobble at the top of the main halyard
rather than the suggested knot on knot method. QUOTE]

Have found the knot-on-knot method is too unreliable.

Didn't look safe before launching and proved right twice on the water, the
second occasion when wanging on the cunningham (for the camera) to
showboat past the pontoon - didnt look quite so impressive with the boom
in the boat and the sail half down !

Small plastic bobble seems perfectly ok to me and hasnt come undone as yet
!

Hmm that thing has something of the Michael Howard about it.

Not sure it's entirely of this world.

In fact I'd even go as far as to say 'Mandelson' it's that bent.

I shall consider further.

I also am bobbled, it seeming a perfectly natural thing..

Edited by G.R.F.