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john80 
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 Topic: New Laser Performance Boat?Posted: 28 Feb 22 at 11:37am |
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The Portstar is an answer to a problem that was never asked. It must be depressing trying to sell this stuff for a living.
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mole
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Posted: 28 Feb 22 at 11:20am |
I bet its a DVD player, so you can watch how to sail it whilst out on the water. Its re-hash of the old On The Job Training. To be honest the whole boat looks like something you would put in a bathroom, or perhaps a one person hot tub?
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Grumpycat
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Posted: 28 Feb 22 at 11:09am |
This is so true . Tbh I think I would trust Putin more . Any sign of any problem with the boat , the design rights and tooling will be transferred to another company and the company you’ve bought if off will either be put into administration or left as a dormant shell company. It’s not like he has done it before is it lol, cough LP and a well known baby buggy manufacturer.
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fab100
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Posted: 28 Feb 22 at 9:51am |
But its got a daggerboard; isn’t that a bit of a deal breaker for you Graeme? And its Rastegar. Personally, I’d no more buy anything from him than from Putin
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eric_c
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Posted: 28 Feb 22 at 9:38am |
Particularly perhaps another hiking singlehander with no kite? But maybe that's a very British POV, the rest of the world may have less of the 20th century legacy we've got? I don't think they're looking too much at the PY fleets on UK puddles or beaches. I suspect they have a plan to aim straight at the squad/team/pro level and then the 5 ring circus. How did whatever the top level boards race get selected? I don't think it evolved out of the 'class system'. Don't forget there is EU money and politics in this. |
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getafix
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Posted: 28 Feb 22 at 9:23am |
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the answer to the question ... what do we not need in dinghy sailing right now?
... another single hander
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Feeling sorry for vegans since it became the latest fad to claim you are one
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iGRF
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Posted: 27 Feb 22 at 7:55pm |
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He went on about the ergonomics of the hiking position and how much time he'd paid to getting the cockpit depth right, we all thought two straps would be better and no the sheeting system and something else surrounding the connection of the boom to the mast is still being revised, there's some sort of locking system, I wasn't paying a lot of attention at that point something female passed by during that bit and I was begiining to lose the will to live. The boys seem to think they've sorted the mast base locking, one of the guys I was with is an expert Laserjockey and they'd begun to speak hi level laser programming code so everything clouded over and I wandered off to look underneath it. Got pictures if anyone wants to see them of the underside and I gave the rocker a look as best you can when it's chocked up on show stands but it looks OK, honestly I couldn't see anything that you'd go, woa don't like that, full batten sail is it's only flaw in my book but I accept their reasoning and it's a well put together rag.
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Grumpycat
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Posted: 27 Feb 22 at 7:43pm |
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IGRF , serious questions . Is the main sheet system the production version as it doesn’t look right and are they staying with the single toe strap? As it looks like you would need long legs to hike it properly.
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Grumpycat
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Posted: 27 Feb 22 at 6:53pm |
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Mmmm sliding into a Pornstar lol , I think I’ll give that one a miss if that’s ok with you , iGRF lol.
Thanks for casting your eye over it and giving your view of it . It’s totally confirmed what I thought about it and what I know about LP. In the words of Dragons Den , I’m out .
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iGRF
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Posted: 27 Feb 22 at 6:15pm |
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Had a long chat with two or three members of the team including the designer. They have their eye on the Olympics to fill the hole left by the Finn.
The hull weight is 36 kgs, all up 55kg on the water. It's £7800.00, delivery this side of four months had a chat with them regarding duty and delivery over here, given it's made in Portugal, everything, then there are no dutys to apply under the Brexit deal as its EC preferential origin. Even the sail is portugese built. Why fully battened? For longevity, they have a bit of a thing about having to use two or three Laser sails to race a season at top level. This sail will last at least a full race season and for us recreational and club types longer still. The racks are cork, the mast boom all carbon, all built in Portugal, The mast is set quite a way aft, so no nosediving even with that wave piercing bow. The three of us from our club all rate it, if I hadn't just bought that Contender I'd have put a deposit down on the day, I've fully changed my mind about it after listening to the guys The sail is 8.5 sq mtr, it's 410 so longer than an Aero, the big sail isn't stupid big, the underside isn't to rock n rolly if you can sail any of the current singlehanders the designer reckons you'll slide effortlessly into the Pornstar with ease and that boat for that money compared to some of the pricing a that show, seems reasonable to me. Edited by iGRF - 27 Feb 22 at 7:45pm |
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