The RS100 Owners Thread

Used the 10.2 for the first time last night, and what a difference..

I guess I'm just power hungry, but I'll not be going back to that small sail
anytime soon unless of course it's howling.

I've been mixing it with the *mackerel fleet on and off ever since I first set
sail with the 8.4. mind you it has been iffy windwise, but the mackerel
sailors and they were ahead of me a fair bit..

Clearly I'm not good enough making it go upwind yet, so having the extra
power helps, I just sheeted out a bit and footed off more which seems to
work, the big sail doesn't point anyway so autocorrects my stuffing
nature.

It also put paid to attempts by my old Blaze's new owner to ruin my day. I
was able to mix it with the Contenders upwind, not quite on their pace
but near enough to give them their just deserts with the kite offwind and
as we tend to finish on a downwind leg enough to see me place ahead of
them last night, which would have been a good result were it not for the
fact that Dumb and Dumberers brain transplant seems to have taken, and
they sailed a blinder in an L3k to totally take me apart, I'm sure they've
modified with bits from their V3k even so it shouldn't have beaten me so
grudging credit to them, other than that it would have been a good
result, much harder to sail but that kept me on my metal so other than
one 360 spinning kite drop with helm pirouette and a crap start, I did ok
for the first time.

*For mackerel read laser, they often trail feathers whilst they dawdle
round the course, trying to get something positive from the experience, it
alleviates the obvious boredom of sailing in a laser.

Edited by G.R.F.

Absolutely Jimbo, the Phantom is much more of a comparative with the 10.2m rig (from what i have read) But Y&Y only compares with two boats, and the Solo and the Laser are not exactly the best choice are they? Surely the Vareo and the D-one would of been best??

Hey James don't forget the first UK fleet...and the first to have a RS circuit
event ..... two (soon to be three) in Lymington.

Not sure how Graham at his weight is not liking the 8.4, its a fab sail even at
my weight. Still noticeably quicker upwind than the Laser. But he is tempting
me to unwrap the big one shortly

Originally posted by SimonW99 Hey James don't forget the first UK fleet...and the first to have a RS circuit event ..... two (soon to be three) in Lymington. Not sure how Graham at his weight is not liking the 8.4, its a fab sail even at my weight. Still noticeably quicker upwind than the Laser. But he is tempting me to unwrap the big one shortly

If there's wind, the 8.4 is definitely faster than the laser up wind and
down, it's just not as fast when the wind drops below a certain threshold,
like any battened sail over none battened sail, soft sails are always faster
in wind up to about 5 mph I'd say.
That and when it is breezey we do have a half decent laser sailor at our
club who mullers me when it's windy, even in the Blaze. He's now
switched back to his Musto and I wanted to continue in my quest to take
a race off him.

What I'm now wondering is wether I can get away with rigging the 8.4 on
the Mast set up for the 10.2 without all that pfaffing about taking the
extension out, I intend to try it tomorrow..

Loosen the bolt in the middle (you have to take the ratchet off) and you can adjust it. The ratchet is easy enough to remove even with the spring in place.