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ChrisC 
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 Topic: The RS100 Owners ThreadPosted: 21 Sep 10 at 10:02pm |
Jimbo - don't bother with the spin blocks - makes not a scrap of difference (been there and tried that !). The problem, and the solution, are with the halyard itself - you need to untie it, unthread and straighten to get the twists out - will all be sweet until it gets twisted again ! I understand from Rob E that the latest boats are coming out with both the plastic tube (my 'quick fix' from back in March !) and now also a sheath over the block that they use in the Vareo. Problem is although you don't think it at the time those bits of shockcord are very effective and its a real pain when they break. I did wonder if it would be better to tie them off to the pole end rather than the launch block aka 49er style ? Doing a final trial on a neat little kite sheet tidy that seems to work well. Anyone else finding that both the kite sheets and the main sheet are too short when its blowing ? Didn't notice it before Parkstone but really notice it all the time now. Easy to splice in a tail onto the kite sheet. Chris |
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G.R.F.
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Posted: 22 Sep 10 at 9:08am |
And found it very strange that you happened to have a picture of the very state Rob pointed out my spinnaker doo dah was in and why it had all jammed, particularly since at no time had anything like that occurred in the past and you and my boat were alone together overnight in the boat park.
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bert
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Posted: 22 Sep 10 at 10:32am |
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whats the fix then & how do you fit it?
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G.R.F.
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Posted: 22 Sep 10 at 10:42am |
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They did something with a bit of tube, that had no effect for me, everything was still ridiculously stiff, so I disconnected that shock chord from the pulley and routed it forward into the cockpit temporarily until I can think of something better to do with it, I have to operate it manually for now, but the operation of the kite is a lot smoother and last time out everything was back to running smooth as..
Two things were happening, one the pulley block on the end of the pole twisted and the spinnaker halyard runs alongside the shock chord and engages when the shock chord is tight. It's having an abrasive effect on the halyard, which is going to need replacing soon. It's not that easy to get at. I'd like to be able to lift the entire carbon deck bit off to sort it, but it has a certain look of permanence about it that might react badly to the jolly old crowbar, so I'm leaving it for the moment until I can find some English Speaking Kosovan midget to send under there with a pair of pliers and a lighter..
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Posted: 22 Sep 10 at 11:40am |
I got paid 50p as a nipper to climb into the foredeck of an Osprey and do just that. A generation on, I've got two young lads you can use, but you've got inflation plus additional H&S costs (sentry guard, ventilation, lighting, knee pads, helmet, firefighting equipment) so how about £300 'mates rates'?
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Foxbox
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Joined: 21 Sep 10 Location: Netherlands Online Status: Offline Posts: 10 |
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Posted: 24 Sep 10 at 7:07pm |
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Hello all,
Got my RS100 last Saturday; 4 days sailing already: simply great in light weather conditions. Sundays F4+ was difficult. I know now that i was to soft with the kicker. Keep the tips coming! CU, Gerard |
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G.R.F.
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Posted: 24 Sep 10 at 9:01pm |
How dee doo dee Gerard.. Don't worry, you can never be too soft, how are you for bunking off early for a curry at 7 pm? Are you devious enough to stitch up an old boys spinnaker block with some surplus shock chord so his kite wont work overnight? Are you overweight? Have weight watchers rejected you for being a total lost cause? Have you got mates so huge their only recourse is to single hand a 505? Were you rejected from Phantom world for being simply too big? Then you'll get on in RS100 with big sail world just fine.
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Foxbox
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Posted: 25 Sep 10 at 8:20am |
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No previous skiff, 505 experience here.
I'm a Sunfish sailor (www.sunfishklasse.nl). Quit unknown in this part of the world, but 300.000 (!) were build. 4.10 meter boat with 7m2 main only. The top sailors are all 60-65 kg ... i am 90 (all muscles of course). My initial idea was to move into Finn. That led me to the Devoti website. There i saw the D-one, and some clicks further the RS100 was on my radar. The boats look basically the same to me, with one *big* exception: price.
10.2 m2 main is quite an upgrade for me; together with the gennaker, i'll have to handle 3 times more sail then i am used to. At the moment under F4 it's RS100 and above Sunfish (which i can handle with F7).
Next week there is a regatta at my club, and depending on the wind force i choose my "weapon" (in all situations it will be a handicap race; there is only a big group of Solo's).
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haroosh
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Posted: 26 Sep 10 at 8:21am |
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Looks like a good mix of 8.4 and 10.2's in the results with a wide variation of crew weight. Really interesting tonsee how it ends up as I am hoping these results will be more meaningful in terms of analysis for comparison of rigsfrom the nats as it's not totally howling....
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Posted: 26 Sep 10 at 8:33am |
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Are there seperate prizes for the 8.4 and 10.2 fleets? From what I gather, at the Nationals the results were not split, which seems a little unfair on Huw Powell, who should be considered the 10.4 National Champ, not the RS100 runner-up?
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