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Riv 
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 Topic: Laser leech lengthPosted: 20 Jun 18 at 9:19pm |
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Tired of kissing the deck tacking my Laser and have several old sails. I could shorten the leech on one by about 10" and re-cut the foot.
Apart from raising the boom end and being out of class what other affects would it have?
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Sam.Spoons
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Posted: 20 Jun 18 at 9:39pm |
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It will be fine, slightly less area but with the higher boom. It shouldn't unbalance the boat or affect the performance too much.
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Emilio Castelli
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Posted: 20 Jun 18 at 10:08pm |
It might bend or break your top section. Have you checked whether your mast is straight? With a straight mast, I don't find the boom very low, unless you have your vang really tight. Ease you vang before you tack and the boom will pop up more than a 10" shorter leach. E
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Rupert
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Posted: 21 Jun 18 at 6:46am |
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Shouldn't bend the top mast unless you are tempted to try and get the boom down to where it was before in a blow upwind!
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JimC
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Posted: 21 Jun 18 at 7:35am |
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I wonder if you might be better off just putting an extra clew eye and leaving the foot, then you could just put a line between the normal clew and the new one and shortening to taste. You could always get the extra cut off later if you so desired. 10 inches seems a lot though!
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GybeFunny
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Posted: 21 Jun 18 at 9:18am |
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Check the mast rake, I have had 5 Lasers over the years, one had more rake than the others and was a pig to sail (kept rounding up in gusts). I think it occurs when the mastpot goes in wonky when built.
https://www.lasersailing.com.au/laser-mast-rake-explained/
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RS400atC
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Posted: 21 Jun 18 at 10:48am |
If you want to go this far from the OD principle perhaps it's time to consider a different boat? It is a performance edge to be able to tack easily with full kicker when others cannot. Depends whether you are racing boat-on-boat against other Laser hulls perhaps? However, I think it will work fine, one or two contender sailors used to do this AIUI, very little performance impact.
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boatshed
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Posted: 21 Jun 18 at 8:08pm |
horh, horh, horh!
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GarethT
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Posted: 22 Jun 18 at 1:25pm |
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Do you tie your kicker line to the daggerboard handle?
Having it easy to reach makes it quite straightforward to ease a tad before the tack, and whack it back on again afterwards. |
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Eisvogel
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Posted: 22 Jun 18 at 2:21pm |
I did that once and promptly got caught in it at the next capsize... Glenn Bourke recommends having a (in his words "rather phallic") upwards pointing handle that you can put the kicker line over.
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