The RS100 Owners Thread

Are you allowed to leave the kite ashore?

Check the all-class RS rules....

what does the NoR say about sail choice?

Is this the first one-class event?

collect my boat on wednesday at 11am! Exciting stuff!  What sort of time should I allow for rigging from the state it will be in when i collect it? Just trying to plan my first sail for that afternoon and interested to know how long other people have taken to rig it for the first time?

I plan not to do too much falling out! If I wanted to do that I would be keeping my 700! It also helps that one of the LDC guys sails at our club and if I have any troubles I'm sure he will sort it. He said they have had people phoning up complaining about the goosneck bolt which is apparently a bit tricky but he recons I will be able to work that one out.  As long is its not like a laser where you spend all day screwing in deck fittings and throwing away half the useless junk they give you.

I imagine all the control lines come rigged because they are continuous and its just a case of threading the mainsheet and rigging the kite?

A lot of people have been on here saying their centreboard brakes are too loose, is that an easy adjustment or should I just leave it for the first sail?

Ok so after yesterdays rain which stopped me from sailing the boat for the first time I finally got on the water this afternoon for a bit of a sail. All was good apart from whoever was in charge of tying the rudder downhaul into the rudder deserves to be sacked because it pulled out because there was no knot on the end. Replaced the rope with a thinner line to make it easier to thread and went sailing again.

Need to tighten the friction pad on the centreboard too, will do this in the morning if I sail again.

Need to put a bobble on the kite downhaul, that was getting sucked through the ring on the lower patch. Also there was a point where the kite kept bunching up and becoming hard to pull down. I think a longer knot on the downhaul and a bobble will stop this.

Need to have a play with the toe straps too, even when fully relased they were too tight for me to hike what i would call properly, i was in a very comfortable position but I would like to think that I could hike harder than I was but the straps held my legs too tight to the deck.

Downwind was nice,  very easy to sail and very balanced. I dont think hiking and sailing high will be the fastest way downwind after todays sail, just sitting up and out a little was what felt fastest for vmg.  Downwind i was sailing with kicker and cunningham all the way off and the sheet just outside the end of the wing.  Oversheeting was much slower than undersheeting the main.

Only other annoyance was a hum from the centreboard all the time upwind, maybe it is to do with my friction pad being too loose but whatever it was it was definitely annoying!

Dont think I will need a bigger sail at the moment either, even in the lightest of winds i was still sat on the wing and powered up.

Just for reference my rig settings today were hole 3 and 4.5 on the mast gate. Wind was 15 knots dropping to 10 or 12. 

Oh and i managed to stay upright all day!