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Agreed. The C8 rig on the Laser never needs changing out. Considered picking up a C6 but decided I would never sail it. In a year the C8 has only flipped me once and I was being extremely lazy on a 10kt gusting to 35kt day, trying to never hike going upwind into the harbor to get out of the...

If I'm honest once it blows over 25kts 4.7 if I'm just knocking about, weeknight racing will be a radial, large weekend events though will be a full rig. I rather like the sight of a Laser half submerged in the back of a wave when you accidentally stuff it on the downwind. If it breaks, one...

Take a radial out in 25kts+ and see how you feel about it compared to the standard?

So I saw a video over the holidays of radials racing and quite a few had the carbon lower section. Not that I'm interested, I have too many sections to worry much about something breaking. But anyone sporting them in anger yet?

Fanny pack Santa is a stink potter? I would have taken him to be a multihuller see as how he likes natural speed. Well, as natural as hopped up, anti-grav reindeer can be.

*cough* International Lactation Consultant Association.

Texas doesn't like Austin and Austin doesn't like Texas.

Oh, that's better. I'm always willing to give to the International Lactation Consultant Association.

I'm a yank but a NE yank. I'm offended. Texas is a very big part of the reason the US is a mess. I'm not willing to spend a penny that goes towards, no matter how indirectly, Texas.

Currently own four different sailing dinghies and some have multiple rigs and sails. And always in the market for something interesting, as well as searching for the next sportboat. The kid already has a trust set up. Cannot take the rest of it with me... I assume that was pointed at me, if...

W Wish the higher performance RS boats showed up in the US in an interesting quantity.

In case anyone wants to fill up my xmas list, here are some ideas.

The first Intensity squarehead had no mods, was a straight 10% hit on each wind range. The only rational was that in the Portsmouth D-PN rules if a mainsail is larger (no matter how much), apply a 10% rating change. Club is small, only 2 major event each year and that only drives in 5-9...

Wess, you need to find someone who can give you the real costs of producing and shipping widgets of various sizes, complexity, materials and quantities. Having helped work on a few boat projects I can assure you that having direct input on widgets that the costs you see in most ILCA gear is not...

A lotta dough! Ask that Wess guy, he's got the inside scoop.

I hear they make boat loads of money and no coppers will stop'em, yeah sea...

Crewing? Running the pit for the control lines and calling tactics while the owner drives?

I remember that and that ILCA doesn't receive the money does not change the fact that inferior parts often sell for considerably more than higher quality equivalent parts. There is no logical reason a block must be stamped with ILCA to be class legal other than to boost the price which the...

Nah. Literally anything would be better than most of the builder supplied gear. The Laser/ILCA stamp has been a decades long rip off.

...opens trenchcoat... Hey kid! Come here! You want some ILCA parts? I got some. Hot! They even have ILCA stickers and imprints. Never know the difference. If you want a receipt from a chandlery I can sell you that as well. My brother has a shop up in Detroit, website looks like the...