The RS100 Owners Thread

Thanks for the encouragment to pull on it harder Alex, perhaps you`ve had more practise at that.

 

 Welcome to *our world   

Bloody maddening isn't it?

So to be as helpful as I can, I found the best way is to right the boat the wrong way (i.e. rig upwind) so you know i'ts going to come right over unless you're quick to dive into the bottom of the boat as it flips up, it's momentum helps you clear the side and land (usually in a degree of pain) right in the middle and you're weight in the bottom is usually enough to stop it flipping right on over, even better if you can clamber up the other side a bit, it really is a bitch if you get separated from it.

Dry capsizes are O.K. and you do get the hang of reacting quickly to stop going in, if you're actually on the centreboard it's not a problem. The problem comes if you become ditched in the water, the mere act of getting on the centreboard is enough to right the boat but you never quite make it into the boat and end up pulling the boat over on top of you.

There are a lot of smart alec 'just water start it as you would a windsurfer' quotes from none coastal sailors who never quite appreciate what sailing on the sea is all about and the attacking from the stern is useless in the kind of breeze you describe, unless you've got a rescue boat holding the nose into wind.

It's not easy and I've had to have rescue boat assistance quite often, but I can get it up now doing what I described and using that hold onto the wire skiff method is quite handy if you can ever get it into that position.

Not an easy boat on South Coast chop in a breeze, (they never tell you that in the instructions do they ), but persevere, you'll get it, if you can sail a Contender you'll have what's necessary..

* South Coast offshore sailors of RS100's

 

Asterix, don't you start encouraging him to break his boat! He still hasn't sold the Contender yet...

Mind you, it was quite funny to watch him drift past the start line backwards, fighting the wind and the waves and the tide and the boat. Busy boy, he was!

 

A couple of weeks ago, I was allowed to sail the 100 in a force Z to N (Zilch to Nought) and I really appreciated how well balanced the boat is. I'm sure Contender443 is going to stick with it and eventually learn to right it!

 

what is everyone using for their genny halyard?  I think standard issue is pre-stretched uncovered 4mm dyneema, but is anyone using covered dynema? or anything else?

 

I want to find something that runs through the blocks in the cockpit better.  My halyard has got less flexible that it was, and also sometimes ties knots in itself.

 

Dave

 

the issue I am getting is that immediately after hoisting the genny to the 'top' of the mast, the slack in the halyard dosen't run out easily because it kinks, twists or gets into knots either infront of the hoisting block or in front of the block on elastic at the back of the boat. 

 

I have tried all sorts of hoisting methods, probably none them too proficient, but I dont think that is the problem, and actually the hoist itself is really easy to do, so I don't need to pull hard at all or wrap the halyard round my hand (for me that is more relevant to the kicker!)

 

Cheers

Dave

 

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