The RS100 Owners Thread

I think the 7.4 would be a big reduction.

Stick with the 8.4 and hike loads!!!

Cheers,

Keith.

Welcome and thanks for flushing out from the pondmonkey that he puts winding me up in the same category as grf-baiting. Find a gun and shoot me now. [yup, there is lots of banter here]

Ignore the forum tosh about a 100 not being sailable on ponds - I've been sailing mine on Frensham Pond week in, week out  for nearly 3 years and find it at least as much (albeit different) fun to racing on the circuit. But your place will be brill, particularly on the days when the beat is downtide and downwind is uptide.

Rest assured we will sort out the omission of the 7.2 from the recent rule change - it will be addressed PDQ I am sure. 

If you have a go in the 8.4, just make sure you max out the kicker upwind when you are overpowered and as James (pondmonkey) says, get at least a 4:1 on the cunno (8:1 is allowed) and pull the living daylights out of it. I lead both parts of the cunningham down one side of the boom as it gives far more travel to play with even if it looks a bit odd. (I'll take a pic and post it up when I can) Let both controls right off as you approach the ww mark tho and don't try and gybe with the vang on unless you want to check your slot gaskets. A key thing on gybes is making sure the boom is definitely coming over  (i use a gybing strop) but then get to the other side of the boat before the boom lands - and of course, speed is your friend.

If you are one-sail reaching, the bow likes to bury itself (I've had the whole foredeck under water even on Frensham in a huge gust) so sit as far back as you can get. With the kite up, this is seldom an issue, waves notwithstanding. The boat is also far more saleable on a one-sail reach with the plate half up, whereas with kite up the board needs to stay in place or you will get lee helm which is slow.

Don't feel shy to ask anything here or on the class forum - but you will get more sense on the latter, more filter-requiring banter here.

The next UK event is the Sprints at Rutland in mid June - lots of short races, so good boat handling practice. And there is another 7.2 at Gurnard on the IoW. We'd love to see you there or at the Nats at HISC. The craic at 100 events is good fun - I think it may be we still all have that pioneering feeling and some staying power (unlike a couple of high profile contributors here who kept the 100s for about 25 minutes)

Kicker and cunningham - you defo need to master these - if you get the sail controls set right, the boat is so much easier to sail, otherwise it's like golfists trying to putt with sand wedges or F1 drivers using tyres stolen from Sir B Wiggins

4:1 etc refers to the purchase/mechanical advantage - means less effort to pull tight, but more string required as a consequence

Kicker is actually a GNAV in the 100 - yanks say Vang, not kicking strap, and as our device pushes the boom down (rather than pulling as in a 200) GNAV is "vang' backwards.

Windyboarders who don't know better call the cunningham a downhaul

But the important thing is just keep up the enthusiasm - this is the ultimate sport

My German teacher always used to say "we mustn't mock the afflicted".

But I hadn't seem that before TY.

Some of us pond sailors get windward/ leewards courses