Rooster 8.1 rig on Laser

Like many I'll be watching the progress of this one with interest. This has the potential to be a cheap way back into exciting single handed sailing.

Is the sail mylar? If so that won't like flapping about too much.

What about the loads on an older sleeved boom when depowering?

Good for Rooster.

''Try and catch clew as it flaps around and then struggle to get it tied off (velcro straps help here but still very fiddly)''

Hopefully this new clew sleeve will make attaching the sail so much easier, i'm going to get one

http://www.lasersailing.com/shop/uks/product/5203

Originally posted by foaminatthedeck Surly the max loading will increase, if for a given crew weight is the boat is kept flat, and the sail size is increased the force acting on the centre of effort will increase therefore the moment acting about the mast foot will increase so the load at that point will increase.

That's why I said the average loading would increase. But once you're fully hiked on the beat, the righting moment and the equal and opposite heeling moment of the rig is at a maximum and can't go beyond that, whatever you do with the sail size.

The "force on the centre of effort" could only increase if you had more righting moment to balance it with, which you don't, so you have to start luffing or dumping (assuming you're already on max sail flattening).

Originally posted by redback What's this about a boat with a fixed mast being easier to rig?  The Laser is ridiculously easy to rig

I can rig my Blaze from being in the boat park to being on the water and sailing in less than 10 minutes, the best I managed in the Laser was 20 (provided I was changed first of course).

Rigging the Blaze:

Attach sail you mast using velcro strap, attach clew to boon using velcro strap and hook on outhaul.

Attach halyard to top of sail and hoist.

Put cunningham through sail in clip on to gooseneck mounting

Put rudder on...done

rigging the Laser...

Put mast sections together

Unroll sail

Pull sail down mast

Put mast in mast step

put cunnigham through cringle and tie off to vang mounting

put boom on gooseneck

Try and catch clew as it flaps around and then struggle to get it tied off (velcro straps help here but still very fiddly)

Hook outhaul on

sheet sail in and hook vang on

attach rudder

attach bungee for daggerboard

check to make sure all the ropes are not tangled and caught as you cannot do anything about it once on the water

Launch (at last).

I have to say I enjoyed sailing the Laser when I had it but would not go back to one now after having the Blaze for over a year...

Good for Rooster try and and do what Laser need to do but I guess that means they are out of being a strict (SM)OD at that point which is good because it means old boats are still competitive.

Horses for courses though....pays your money and takes your choice...If I am offered a ride in an 8.1 I will probably take it out of curiosity if nothing else.....

Paul

16 stone man holding a standard rigged boat flat is going to have the same sideways stress as 16 stone man hiking out to hold both a 4.7 or an 8.1 flat.
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True dat...

The average sailor weight will go up, which will put more stress on the hull in the long run, but enough to cause damage? I guess we'll find out soon enough.