jeffers
Active Member
Something I always find odd. I know they are heavily used by lots of people but if you put a novice in a boat with sail controls that don't work they won't be able to act on the advice you give them. It was also one of the suggested reasons people don't use their lasers - badly rigged and don't know how to improve them.
I used to be a member of the OU Sailing Club and used the shared laser they owned. Most of the membership were fairly new to sailing so I ended up rerigging the laser to get it to a fair spec but still easy to rig. I ended up covering anything that shouldn't be undone in electrical tape to ensure it was always in a good rigging state for the next user.
Case in point, was doing some instructor pre-assesment training at Grafham Water Centre on Sunday. Their Laser 2000's were hopeless. The kite halyard would not flow because it was tangled around the cunningham and kicker (where the line leads back to the thwart). The kicker ran out of travel before anywhere near enough was on and the cunninhamg had snapped at some point and the rope shortened so it was next to useless.
For the sake of about £10 worth of rope and about half an hour of time this could be easily sorted.
Anyway I digress.... You need to ask WebMuppet about the gelcoat damage, he was one of those who actually sailed, i gave it a miss because I didn't want to bugger my knee up for Sunday.