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Hi everybody, I'm from Spain but I'll visit Vancouver during May. I was wondering whether anyone knows some sailing shop close to downtown where I can buy laser parts. My closer retailer is more than 600 miles away, so I would save shipping costs and possibly take benefit of the currency...

Hello everybody, today afternoon I've been installing an inspection port in my laser, because it's getting water through the mast step and I plan to make some repair work, following the instructions in other threads in this forum. The port is already installed but I have to prove it with a...

Hi all, it's the second time I ask something similar, but I'm getting a bit desperate. I'm making a horrible performance in upwind legs, especially with medium wind (11-15 knots) and choppy water. By "horrible" I mean that even making a good start, I'm the last boat after the first 200 meters...

Hi all! Do you make warming up exercises before starting a regatta? In other sports these exercises are important to prevent injuries. However, I haven't seen many (or would say any) people warming up before sailing -- perhaps in a professional level they are more common, I don't know. Are...

Recently I've seen a purchase system in the traveller: no blocks, just making a knot in the traveller cleat, then sending back the line to pull from the traveller Y and finally once again to the cleat. You can apply much more force in this way. I was planning to use it, but someone has also...

Hi all, in my last and unfortunate race, I bent my upper mast section, capsized and lost a pair of battens. I read somewhere that a possible reason for the bent could be not releasing the vang after the windward mark. That was exactly what happened to me: I use an old vang, I added an extra...

Lately, my performance is begin really horrible and I'm not sure of how much the bad state of my boat may be affecting. For instance, during the last regata I discovered that my bailer is broken, so the cockpit was continuously full of water. Besides, I don't know exactly how but my battens...

Last weekend I was in a multiclass regatta with an average wind of 12 knots but many waves and a total path of 6 miles. In the longest leg (upwind) I just couldn't manage to get speed enough and I don't know why it was so difficult to me. To put an example, I was clearly overtaken by a...

Hello everybody, does anybody know where to buy some laser sailing posters? (preferrably if they can be ordered online) We have some kids in our sailing school that would like to have laser posters in their bedrooms... :o It would be even better if the posters show laser "star-sailors" (man or...

I usually participate with a laser inside multi class regattas including 470's, 420's, hobie cat, snipes and so, all the boats in real time. Inside the fleet, we rarely exceed 2 lasers and, recently, it seems I'm becoming the only laser 'representative' :-( As I usually arrive in the last...

Last weekend we had a regatta so that, when going on the port tack, we had small/medium waves coming perpendicularly into the bow. I've read that one should make fore and aft movements to avoid slowing down each time a wave "attacks". However, I couldn't find the right combination of movements...