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    Posted: 22 Mar 10 at 2:11pm

Originally posted by turnturtle

Thanks for the replies gents, here's another shot of me going upwind in
underpowered conditions. Again favouring not to max out the cunningham. I also
noticed that I wasn't cranking the mainsheet tension on hard either, there must be
a good six-eight inches more sheet available.



The reason for this was because I've always assumed that I should sail it freer, but
when the wind dropped right off I got a very rude awakening when I lost my 'on
the water' lead to a 300 that simply slipped by to windward 5-10 degrees higher;
gracefully executed too, I was jealous....

But I guess with the strop on the back being offset, this could go block to block at
the back (laser style) and would probably improve the leech telltale flow and I
could have pinched up a bit... so much to learn with a new boat, but that's half the
fun of it!

Lucky you I say....flat calm it was at QMSC I went home to earn brownie points.

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Originally posted by asterix

Is the class association in place yet?  It would be nice to get a discount on the insurance...

As TT has said, the RS100 has been 'adopted' into the RS family of classes, so the association exists. Hopefully that means the bulk of the work (membership, web site etc) will be done by the existing RS administrators. But owner input will still be needed and volunteers are 'being sought'.

There is now an RS100 link on the RS Association website, - but apart from boat stats, b*gger all on it. No events (despite some planned), no news - not even a link to the blog, etc etc. If someone interested in the 100 goes to the RS classes page, it will appear the class is virtually moribund - clearly neither correct nor the impression we want to give.

Charlie/ Niki - who's responsible for keeping those pages up to date, and can this be sorted so that it looks like the class is at least semi-organised and active?

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Plenty of similarity with the 300 rig, but don't be surprised when one slips
by upwind and higher - much less wetted area. 300 pN 1000, so 5 points
quicker and no kite for downwind, go figure.... should be a fair bit quicker
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Originally posted by turnturtle

Hector,

These are not the buoyancy aids you are looking for....



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James - yes that is the right BA. But despite advertising the black one, they don't actually have any - neither do Sailboats, or anywhere else I can find.
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Simon - you should know about cunningham - never touch unless way overpowered.

RS300 shot from Leigh and Lowton - and bearing in mind they were capsizing for fun, I'd say they don't use much cunningham!

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Looks like your halyard has slipped down a bit looking at the gap at the top of the mast, this may account for some of the 'bag'. The cunningham is useful in this respect....pull the main up, pull max cunningham on, let cunningham off and pull up the main halyard a bit more, it just gets rid of some of the stretch in the halyard.
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So there your go James
LEAVE THE BLOODY CUNNINGHAM ALONE

Looking good in the piccies though.
Well done that man.
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Hi James,

Re: the sly pig (cunning ham, geddit!), I've tended to leave it off on all classes I've sailed until I've exhausted all other depowering controls and then slammed it on as hard as I could (to the extent that I've had an 8:1 cunningham on another class I sailed).

On the 300, and the 100 as you point out, it looks all wrong if you leave it off upwind. What I particularly dislike is the 'bag' that you get behind the gnav bars (seen on the intersection of your head and your right hand on the last picture you posted above) so I tend to leave on enough cunningham (upwind and down) just to take out this bag. This still leaves creases up the luff which I like and show that I haven't overdone it.

I think that if you haven't got any creases from the luff in anything less than overpowered conditions then you've got too much cunningham on. The luff will be smooth when you're overpowered with loads on but that's fine. Be prepared to adjust upwind in changeable conditions, like I know you do with the kicker.

 
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I bought Adam Bowers DVD the other day RYA Speed and it is quite good to get your head round the controls etc.

I think he was calling the cunningham the photographer control as, until you start getting over powered, you leave it off until someone wants to take pictures of you. At which point you pull it on enough to take the creases out for nice photos.

It opens up the "fourth corner" (roach) and takes the camber and power out the top of the sail that has been pulled on by the kicker. If I got it right. I watched it twice on the bounce 
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Well done Keith, how's it looking - Let us know how you get on, and as with James; photos, tips and comments would be great. See you at Largs sometime this year I hope
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