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    Posted: 03 Mar 21 at 2:54pm
Originally posted by Rupert

True, forgotten the stern overhang.

Shows what a great hull shape it is, really, that a whole plethora of longer waterline dinghies struggle to be significantly faster, despite rig advances.

Echo that sentiment.

Then it does give the lie to the damn Bandit getting slower every year.
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Anyone ever tried adding an extra foot to hull length ?
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Originally posted by 423zero

Anyone ever tried adding an extra foot to hull length ?


To a Laser, or in general? To a Laser, the nearest would probably be the Megabyte, but it's also been blown up a bit at the same time.

I have wondered what a Mirror would be like if cut in half and 2' added in the middle, and a mizzen added, but that might be for another thread...
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keeping the same beam ? Could be a good cruiser.
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Yes, the Contender is broadly the same shape as the laser and at 16 ft is 2 ft longer. It was designed before the Laser but that must just be a coincidence......
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And they both have a vague reminiscence to the Flying Dutchman. Maybe that was just where the state of the art as at the time?
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Think the laser has fuller shape in the bow sections which must go along way to her punching above her length
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Originally posted by E.J.

Yes, the Contender is broadly the same shape as the laser and at 16 ft is 2 ft longer. It was designed before the Laser but that must just be a coincidence......


Strange how the Laser seems to go well in all conditions but the Contender flies in breeze and is a dog in the light ?

The long (once heavy) boom didn't help but the hull seemed sticky in the light stuff
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Originally posted by rich96

Originally posted by E.J.

Yes, the Contender is broadly the same shape as the laser and at 16 ft is 2 ft longer. It was designed before the Laser but that must just be a coincidence......


Strange how the Laser seems to go well in all conditions but the Contender flies in breeze and is a dog in the light ?

The long (once heavy) boom didn't help but the hull seemed sticky in the light stuff


They stiff themselves by not permitting rig rake adjustment on the fly, this constricts their boom travel offwind, leaves the rig in a permanent depower position, all for what? Can see no logic in not having adjustable forestay.
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