RS800 Video Library

   Very short video with comparison of two 'hooking on' styles. Plus some close up of sheet work around the trap handle on entry. 

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Guests Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Quote Reply Topic: RS800 Video Library Posted: 12 Jun 18 at 10:12am
	Very short video with comparison of two 'hooking on' styles. Plus some close up of sheet work around the trap handle on entry.

Hengest Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Groupie Joined: 05 Jun 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 77	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hengest Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 12 Jun 18 at 8:15pm
	Quick question, what are you using for editing software?

Guests Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Quote Reply Posted: 12 Jun 18 at 9:03pm
	Davinci Resolve. It's way too powerful for what I'm doing really, but I fancied learning to use some software, and it's free! Shotcut I played around with and does most of what I'd need.

Hengest Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Groupie Joined: 05 Jun 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 77	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hengest Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 13 Jun 18 at 12:07pm
	Thanks, I'm looking to edit some of my RS600 videos, Hopefully I'll be able to find a tack that starts ok, and one that ends ok. Glue them together for a complete tack :-)

Guests Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Quote Reply Posted: 20 Jun 18 at 4:18pm
	POV video from last night. After a relatively windless May, the last couple of weeks in June have really delivered.

Guests Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Quote Reply Posted: 10 Aug 18 at 10:37am
	Raw footage of some breeze back in June, warts and all. Not enough angles to make into a decent video, but the rack mounting is kinda interesting view.

Guests Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Quote Reply Posted: 27 Aug 18 at 8:57pm
	Volunteered myself to do a few videos showing how we got our ten year old RS800 in to championship shape. Here's the first:

dohertpk Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Posting king Joined: 28 Sep 12 Online Status: Offline Posts: 172	Post Options Post Reply Quote dohertpk Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 28 Aug 18 at 8:47am
	Great stuff. Thinking of picking one up at some stage to complement the Musto. Looking forward to the next video.

Guests Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Quote Reply Posted: 10 Sep 18 at 11:53am
	Sorting out the off boom sheeting with elastic take up, variable system length and single splice adjustable strops. The RS800 off boom sheeting came in in 2017. It really makes the boat for us, however, there are some things you need to get right for the system to work well. 1) It must be 3:1, which requires quite a long sheet. This can get washed out of the boat, which at beast is irritating, but as worst cause capsizes when you can't ease the sheet. An effective elastic take up solves this issue. 2) Split strops aren't allowed. So the sheet must terminate on the block at the bridle. This means strop height is critical to getting the boom centred and the leech tight. We have a single adjustable splice which alters both sides together, making quick changes possible and always keeps the bridle centred. 3) Tie the jib sheet to the main sheet with a clove hitch around a bite in the mainsheet. This is secure knot, but can be slipped along the mainsheet easily. Moving the knot toward the end of the mainsheet lengthens the system.

Guests Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 18 at 2:41pm
	We got out yesterday despite the weather warnings. Forecast was coming down all the time in the second half of last week, so it looked do-able, but could get challenging if we got caught in the back end of the rain. We got an extra coffee at the club, as the wind had increased sharply from 15 to 20+ knots and we wondered if it would continue building on that trend. But after 30 minutes of discussing which WindGuru model was correct it seemed to have stabilised around 20 knots. Plus the rain had stopped so we rigged to go out. Club racing was still on although only a couple of solos chose to go out. We didn't race, but just went for a sail up and down enjoying the near full tide in the harbour. The trickiest bit was just next to the club, with a strong incoming tide meeting the fresh northerly it kicked up quite a chop. But we sailed through that and did a few windward-leeward laps over Pilsey Sands to the south of Thorney island in mostly flat water. The boat handling was fairly ropy as I was trying a new gybing technique, plus we'd moved where my trapeze lines are routed to... probably not ideal to be changing things up in this weather, but it was our last sail before the inlands and I was keen to test it all out. Anyway, we got out and back with no capsizes or breakages, and a relatively controlled return to the leeward shore by dropping our main. Just as we were de-rigging it got really fresh and they 40 knots on the race box! Glad we missed that. Short but sweet clip, enjoy!