The RS100 Owners Thread

Originally posted by Slippery Jim Let´s keep it simple simon undergraduate-like then.

deleted as I was being a dick, as can be seen in the quote box below.

Edited by Doug.H

Originally posted by Doug.H Originally posted by Slippery Jim Let´s keep it simple simon undergraduate-like then. Or we stop talking about "S-curve-give-a-sh*t" when we can simplify it with one sentence - When it gets windy my arm gets tired more quickly regardless of what boat I sail. We've all sailed plenty of different boats yet no one is jumping up saying "yeah mate, I felt exactly what you're talking about". So maybe, just maybe whatever fancy equation you've thrown at it, in the reality of actually sailing, it counts for dick all.

I humbly apologise for any reason to have motivated you use defamatory
and aggressive language on this forum when I was clearly showing signs
of being fed up with not having my question understood.

Perhaps you should reconsider your tone. Experience - luckily second
hand - has shown me that the verbal assailant wakes up a few hours later
in hospital with multiple, severe injuries, such as glass in the face, neck,
stabbing wounds, baseball bat bludgeons and so on. I know you can hide
behind your monitor sniggering, but my advice to you is to save the talk
about dicks for when you need to use your own for the right reasons and
otherwise not to take that type of language out in public.

Shalom and good night



Edited by Slippery Jim

Look you lot, this is supposed to be a helpful RS100 owners thread, not an
arena for discussing the various sheetloads of antiquated and outmoded
garbage..

Start your own thread, here let me suggest a title.

Sheet Loads on Sad Boats for Simpletons..

So stfu & fotsyot.


edit sorry Chris C not aimed at you..

Edited by G.R.F.

Originally posted by ChrisC Whilst we are on the subject on mainsheets what are the thoughts about the 100 finalised design having a standard deck mounted turret / jammer arrangement rather than the off-boom sheeting that was initially trialled ? Personally I was hoping the off-boom sheeting would come to fruition as it is such a sweet feature on the 49er, ergonomically perfect and enabling very dynamic trim control (not a big fan of jammers and really struggle to ease the main in gusts regardless of what I do to ease them). Thinking of maybe using the sheet leading from the boom sailing upwind and just using the jammer on the downwind. Will the blocks allow this ?

I doubt it, you would need the ratchet block on the boom. Also more importantly will the rules allow this? In the 500 its in the rules that you cant sheet off the boom.

Cheers Wobble. I will look out for that in the rules (and only do it when
nobody's looking !).

49ers dont use a ratchet on the main. Not wishing to go down the
"Mainsheet Load" route again (honestly !), I would have thought that with the
huge purchase of the sheeting from the end of the boom / transom the
mainsheet loads would be very low ? On the Vortex, which is centre boom
sheeted and hence has huge mainsheet load, I have caused very painful
crushing damage to my hands - doctors orders not to wrap sheet around my
hand !!