Nice new Laser for Christmas

Originally posted by winging it Finally grumpf succumbs to the virtues and joys of wood bothering.

The world's gone mad.........

Originally posted by iGRF Originally posted by iiitick GRF found much of this to his own cost when he bravely (arrogantly) tried to build a performance craft with integral hamper.</span> I wouldn't have said bravely, I don't think it was brave, it might be with the next one as I'm self building it in wood and it could fall apart, the other one didn't break up, it's main failing came down to build weight, it was just too damn heavy to be bothered with, in the end if I'm honest. Stupid maybe, arrogant probably, but nothing ventured... I do at least know the concept works, so this next one (even though the breadknife remarked negatively when she came across the sketch pad after daughter No 4 nicked it whilst i was out last night and started up with the Christmas Card sketches.) should be the success I'm looking for (given the goal posts have also shifted and I need it to cope down the lake).

Am I the only one who's still worried about Laser mast rake and weight?

Edited by Bruce - 06 Dec 14 at 5:51pm

Yup, you are the only one who is actually worried - the rest just like a good wind up.

I was on a sailing holiday in Greece two or three years ago. The company had got a batch of a dozen or so new Lasers. One of the top Lasers sailors in Greece measured the mast rake on all of them and chose the best ones to go to the Greek laser squad and the rest were kept by the holiday company. I watched him choose the boats. He had a lower mast section which he put in each mast hole and measured from the top of it to the back of the boat. And I think he measured from the back of the mast to the stern corners too.