The RS100 Owners Thread

i dont think this will work that well it be ok at open
meeting as the ood with have read the si and know something
about the boat

but at club level you get volentears that are the ood that
can be from any other class and there not nesseraly going
to know anything about rs100 there simperly look at the
sail sine that will say rs100 and the number 104 ect and
thats all that will be write down and they will know
nothing about a "swooch" or the importance of the colour of
the number

may be but you are looking at a class that has been around
yours not a new class and with the laser the shape of the
sail is compleaty different to

and most of the clubs that i have sailed if there club racing is divided into fleets all the lasers sail togever
and there is no handy cap involved first accrose the line
wins what ever rig your in which i think works really well

but to be honist this is isont going to effect me to much
at just over 100kg there not going to be to meany days
where im not going to be in the 10.2

In terms of finishing the race there should never be two sails with the same number anyway so the colour of the number is irrelvant, perhaps all the numbers could be preceeded by a letter such as A or B or by a number a bit like the car numberplates are now with 09/59 both being the same year.

If not then the numbers can easily be worked out using a scoring program which would know which numbers were associated to which rig.

A few years ago there was a spate of Mirrors using white sail numbers, it got banned as race officers could not see the numbers when the sail was backlit, if you are going for white numbers make sure they are visible.

In my club handicap series it is the helm that matters, results I get in any boat all get counted together so in theory I can choose a Phantom in light winds and a Radial in high winds. This doesnt lead to the arms race that you may expect as not everyone has the luxury of multiple boats. I had assumed others clubs were similar, it seems I was wrong!

It shouldn't actually make any difference to OOD's at club level as they
only need record a sail number and a time. The handicap adjustment is
then applied later when the results are calculated and the onus is then on
the sailor to make sure he signs on with the right PY entered.

Would be sensible to make sure that whoever works out the results
knows that there are two PY's for the RS100 (so they dont apply a blanket
PY to cover both fleets).

Where the different colour numbers will be useful is on the water with
other RS100's and you will know if you need to be ahead of them or not -
although the rigs actually look quite different and if the fleets get that
big it will be amazing anyway !

I am presuming that the sail number applies to the HULL and there wont
be 10.4's and 8.2s with the same sail number on different boats ? How
does this work in the Laser / Radial fleet ?

Edited by ChrisC