Laser fun ?

We have just bought a Laser Fun sailing dinghy, she is grp, has a main and jib but no spinny, this is our first boat and we,re pleased with how she sails finding her quite lively, is there anyone that can give me any background info on these boats, age etc, also any tips on how to get the best out of her.

                              thanks Robert 

Great vid,I see what u mean by centering the lower block on the bridle. I,ve downloaded a rigging manual for a laser fun from the laser website and I now know I need some spares namely - Reefng drum, some kind of rotating shackle for the top of the jib (sorry don,t know the correct name), a cunningham line and hook and a reefing line. Sadly laser can,t help as they no longer carry spares for the laser fun , any ideas where I can get these spares or something similar that may work. Thanks for your help.

                                                     Chippy1

Personally, I'd live without the furler - it raises the jib undesirably above the foredeck. L2 sailors were obsessive at one time about lowering the jib as far as possible, even fiddling with the bow U-bolt (e.g. removing the upper nuts) to achieve this.

There were two versions of the Laser Fun that I encountered - the basic Fun and the Fun 'New Wave' which had a cobbled-together asymmetric spinnaker system, with which the kite was sometimes very tricky to coax back into the chute and which had a deck-mounted pole. The Laser 3000 was effectively the fully-sorted version of the latter.

One advantage of the Fun over the Laser 2 was that it had spreaders rather than diamonds, which meant that if you fitted spreaders of appropriate length and rake you could get mast pre-bend for light airs sailing, something which was hugely desirable but impossible with the 2.

I wouldn't rely solely on the Laser rigging manual - the class association version will produce a better boat.