The RS100 Owners Thread

In strong wind, you must let loads of kicker off before you tack and keep the
boat flat and driving.

If you are feeling weather helmy coming out of tacks in a breeze, you possibly have the kicker / cunningham balance wrong: The unusual thing about the RS100 is that you have to pull harder physically on the cunningham at any given time, so often newcomers to the class are under "cunninghamed", which will make it harder.

Also keep the mast well upright (at least mid mast gate or further fwd). And ease loads of main through the tack and pull in aagin when you are going. It is a big wide deck to land on so get well out coming out of a tack! If you still have problems then do what Simon says - ease some kicker, but you really should not need to - it is a very balanced boat.

I do think lengthening the spreaders works a bit - the windward shroud is always under some tension. so it is conveying some support - but not like having a forestay of course.

Originally posted by asterix Guys I'm still occasionally getting stuck head to wind when tacking - and I seem to mess up most when I trying to be most careful.  Maybe then I am being too slow to cross the boat?  Any (helpfful) advice welcomed Dave

Have you fixed the spreader issue?

When they jam it screws up your tacking capability.

If it's windy and your stuck with the big sail, I found dumping the kicker
and angling the plate forward the only real answer.. (then I found the
spreader issue was contributing to the problem, with the boom staying on
the wrong side..)

I put the washers on and gave the whole Assembly a good smothering
in Vaseline and haven't had a jam since. Got new shrouds now aswell
so they just went on this week. All working very smoothly now.

Ah vaseline, didn't think of that, put the washers on last night, it was still
sticky, blasted it with WD40 and it's smooth as silk now, but I doubt that
will last long.

I also found loads of pebbles down in the mast slot, I wondered why my
chain plate settings had reduced by one hole.

There was water in the mast base as well, the small hole was blocked by
sand and grit, so had to free that up - the joys of beach sailing. To do it I
had to remove the mast gate.

WD40'd the spinnaker pole while I was at it and gave the chute entrance a
bit of a spray, my centreboard repair seems to be holding up well and
whilst I was 'at it' I've set up a 4-1 downhaul configuration to give me
more purchase, the downhaul is clearly more important than on previous
boats I've used and the way these spreaders seem to work I'm going to
mess about with pre bend using them, see if I can't emulate my windsurf
rig and the way that works, so anyway after all that she's purring and
ready for action tonight.

There'll probably be no wind again.