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    Posted: 11 Jan 15 at 8:50pm
As in not a lee board - it runs down the centreline. Developed long before windy planks and the b**tardisation of our nomenclature!
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Then it is another anachronistic nomenclature, you'll have to change it, it's senseless. I will continue to define straight up and down things as daggerboards and pivoting ones as centreboards, you lot I will as usual, ignore.
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But my son's windsurfer has a pivoting daggerboard!!!???

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Posts: 6499 		Post Options Post Options   Quote iGRF Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Jan 15 at 9:28pm
No it doesn't, if it's an actual windsurfer, circa mid seventies to early eighties it has a daggerboard, some time later they switched to a centreboard system.

Most everything else these days runs centreboards that fully retract.

Thanks in no small measure to pioneering types like me that cut their kit about in the late seventies.
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Originally posted by Null

At 85kg I can probably answer much of this.  First off you will of sailed the boat James has borrowed.  The control lines should be the perfect length, but as it is a demo boat and knowing James I suspect it's not had any time spent on it.  So it obviously needs some love.  It also depends how James has set the mast up in terms of rake mast foot position etc.  The mast and sail were developed by people like Charlie Cumbley, Dan Holman and a number of finn experts.  So I'm going to disagree with you Ian.  It takes some understanding to set up correctly.  The sail is naturally cut very full so taking time to understand how the rig works is critical in making it work.  At 88kg you are 3kg heavier than me and my best results are in light wind, so you are not too heavy by any stretch.

Ah, right. It was literally there in the water on the shore, I was nearby kitted up and I got the "fancy a go" question followed by a tight reach across the lake and back again, so it was hardly an exhaustive test. I didn't look at the boat that closely and I didn't even know you could change the mast foot position so yeah, it probably needed a bit of setting up. I think what surprised me was the kicker went block to block with very what seemed like very little effort where normally going block to block on something naturally makes me wince out of sympathy for the boat!

It's the first time I've even seen one so I need to have a bit more of a close up look at it. But I was impressed with the finish and it was comfy to hike...albeit wet (but it was pretty windy!)
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Ha ha it was rigged by jimbo! Yes if the boom webbing strap isn't tied off in the right place you can run out of travel alright. 
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Yeah as Dan says, it's almost certainly a kicker webbing strap tie off thing.  It needs to be as tight as possible otherwise you run ou of kicker really quickly
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Good to see the D-Zero Blue rig out on Sunday at the Grafham Grand Prix. Looks stunning and certainly clear which rig is which for the race officials!

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D-Zero Gold Cup 2015 is now more than a rumour:
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I have not been to lake Garda, my wife wants to go but not with the boat!  Better start working on her!  
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