New Posts New Posts RSS Feed: Video of the week
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Register Register  Login Login

Video of the week

 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 291292293294295 366>
Author
FireballNeil View Drop Down
Really should get out more
Really should get out more
Avatar

Joined: 03 Oct 06
Location: United Kingdom
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 654
Post Options Post Options   Quote FireballNeil Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: Video of the week
    Posted: 05 Mar 07 at 5:39pm
Neil

Back to Top
tgruitt View Drop Down
Really should get out more
Really should get out more
Avatar

Joined: 02 Dec 04
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 2479
Post Options Post Options   Quote tgruitt Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 Mar 07 at 1:43pm
Needs to sail more...
Back to Top
Medway Maniac View Drop Down
Really should get out more
Really should get out more
Avatar

Joined: 13 May 05
Location: United Kingdom
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 2788
Post Options Post Options   Quote Medway Maniac Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 Mar 07 at 1:00pm

Originally posted by GK.LaserII

Not fantastically exciting but it's the only L II video I could find apart from the stuff on the class website... Shame it's a class thats dying.

Laser 2 was the nicest boat I ever sailed on a three-sail reach, Fireball, 505 and asymmetrics included. Somehow very light and balanced - the video reflects that well. The kite was the nicest symmetric I ever used, set on just the right length pole.

Trouble was, everything bent where and when you didn't want it to! We used a 505 pole, but you couldn't so easily uprate the boom and that telegraph pole of a mast with its diamonds (why?!) and no pre-bend.

The 3000 addresses all those issues, but even though we've kept the kite size moderate and avoided the pitfalls of a lot of assys that can only sail windward-leeward, we've lost that unique feeling of lightness of the L2 on a three-sailer, even if the speed of the 3k is greater.

But would I go back to handling an L2 symmetric kite to get that feeling back? Probably not, but I'd like to try it on a sorted boat with a proper mast and boom. Maybe a project on an old Laser 3000 - add a D-ring to the mast, couple of clamcleats and fairleads to the gunwale, then an uphaul-downhaul on the mast - but the list is getting longer, and it'd be a shame to spoil an L3k - maybe not, then!

Back to Top
Guests View Drop Down
Guest Group
Guest Group
Post Options Post Options   Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 Mar 07 at 12:31pm

Not fantastically exciting but it's the only L II video I could find apart from the stuff on the class website... Shame it's a class thats dying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vNLsU0Mew4&mode=related& amp;search=

Back to Top
redback View Drop Down
Really should get out more
Really should get out more
Avatar

Joined: 16 Mar 04
Location: Tunbridge Wells
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1502
Post Options Post Options   Quote redback Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 Mar 07 at 10:25pm

As for my daggerboard I can only assume I hit the anchorage for the cardinal mark I was hoping to round.  Boats nearby had their blades in mud and appeared to be stuck.  We had slightly over stood and so had cracked our sheets and were heading for the mark at very high speed (it was windy).  The next thing we knew was the bow was underwater, I had hit the shroud and the crew was on the foredeck - then we capsized. As I hauled myself up onto the board I realised what had happened and also that the board would never again go up through the slot.

We had to retire and when we arrived back at the club we laid the boat on its side, cut the handle off the top and pulled the thing out of the bottom.  I don't know if you realise the board is reinforced with steel rods.  The tip was bent off at about 30 degrees.  Thankfully the hull was undamaged but then they are built rather solid.

Medway Maniac sent me this photo as a momento.

Back to Top
Villan View Drop Down
Really should get out more
Really should get out more
Avatar

Joined: 26 Nov 05
Location: United Kingdom
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1768
Post Options Post Options   Quote Villan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Mar 07 at 5:57pm
Been removed by the user!!!!!

Putitback!!!
Vareo - 149 "Secrets"
TandyUK Servers
Back to Top
MRJP BUZZ 585 View Drop Down
Really should get out more
Really should get out more
Avatar

Joined: 05 Mar 06
Location: United Kingdom
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1496
Post Options Post Options   Quote MRJP BUZZ 585 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Mar 07 at 1:29pm
Yea i saw it on the tasa site, awesome
Josh Preater

BUZZING IS FUN

Back to Top
Skiffman View Drop Down
Far too distracted from work
Far too distracted from work
Avatar

Joined: 27 May 04
Location: United Kingdom
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 291
Post Options Post Options   Quote Skiffman Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Mar 07 at 11:14am

thats awesome

49er GBR5

teamfletcherandsign.co.uk
Team Fletcher and Sign campaign site
Back to Top
Black no sugar View Drop Down
Really should get out more
Really should get out more
Avatar

Joined: 04 Dec 04
Location: Somewhere between Brighton and Lancing
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 3941
Post Options Post Options   Quote Black no sugar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Mar 07 at 11:09am

Clap Absolute beauties! I love the 2 boats capsizing at the same time, on the same mark, but on opposite tacks! Very elegant  

Thanks radixon.

 

Back to Top
radixon View Drop Down
Really should get out more
Really should get out more
Avatar

Joined: 27 Oct 06
Location: United Kingdom
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 2407
Post Options Post Options   Quote radixon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Mar 07 at 10:41am

anyone seen this collection of 49er crashes before, Clicky

Sorry if you have but only got listed 5 days ago.

Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 291292293294295 366>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down

Bulletin Board Software by Web Wiz Forums® version 9.665y
Copyright ©2001-2010 Web Wiz
Change your personal settings, or read our privacy policy