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Riv 
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Joined: 23 Nov 13 Location: South Devon Online Status: Offline Posts: 353 |
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 Topic: New Laser RagPosted: 16 Sep 15 at 11:02am |
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Radial pattern is similar to the smaller radial rig so has a family feel to it. Makes it more accessible more familiar, less of a jump and so in keeping with the class ideals.
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iiiiitick
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Posted: 16 Sep 15 at 11:35am |
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Oh I see. Like me it is stuck in the seventies. I feel so much better now.
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iGRF
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Posted: 16 Sep 15 at 11:52am |
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Made my comment on the article, it's pathetic, bang up to date, and the date in question 1985.
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tgruitt
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Posted: 16 Sep 15 at 12:01pm |
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Needs to sail more...
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kneewrecker
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Posted: 16 Sep 15 at 12:03pm |
which bit of maintaining equal (ish) performance did you not get? If Laser sailors wanted a major point of difference between the hardware, then there's plenty of options out there.... and I'm sure there's a highly effective, well regarded and faultless system in place to ensure the racing is then brought back in line to level the playing field.
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iiiiitick
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Posted: 16 Sep 15 at 12:19pm |
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I understand the principle of design staying the same for ever so that a level playing field exists but there are limits! Obviously Laser are popular throughout the World but surely they are being chipped away at by more modern classes. I have been at our club for about 20 years and in that time I remember only one bran new Laser but three new Bytes, five new Supernovi a new Phantom and a couple of GP,s. Even an Aero (with another on the way). As far as second hand boats are concerned Lasers only turn up as " found in the back of Dads garage" and sit keeping the weeds down in the boat park with a couple of Mirrors and a windsurfer.
Does Jeremy Corbin own a Laser?
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kneewrecker
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Posted: 16 Sep 15 at 1:11pm |
depends on the specific manufacturer.... I doubt he'd be too keen on an Aussie import one, and anyway that's not the biggest issue with his sailing.... he still flies a red flag when protesting about something and the prick is refusing to sing sea shanties when going downwind. Apparently he finds the practice out-dated.
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fab100
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Posted: 16 Sep 15 at 3:46pm |
Surely sailing is far too middle-class for our new Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition. But imagine, if he did sail a Laser he'd still be insisting we all use 3:1 standard kickers (no cheating and making it 4:1), a 2:1 cunningham and a wooden tiller fitted with a metal UJ - because that's all the sun-bleached knocker sitting trolley-less and scratched on a beach in somewhere god-forsaken, would have. Oh, and the State would own all the boats. New designs would have to have a government permit, only obtainable by party-members and only then after a massive kickback to the head of the People's Yachting Union. But my bet is that, if Jeremy did actually dinghy sail, it would be in a proper red-topped (Daily) Mirror - with a gaff and the jib sheeted out on the gunwale as Jack Holt originally intended.
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JimC
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Posted: 16 Sep 15 at 3:53pm |
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The Finn was a favourite class in the old Soviet Union...
But in any case Mr Corbyn is as middle class as they come isn't he? |
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Rupert
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Posted: 16 Sep 15 at 4:26pm |
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Did I read he was a public schoolboy? In which case he would team race Fireflies, which, oddly, is about as socialist as sailing gets.
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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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