wanted to share this someone posted it my facebook
Looks like he needs more convex ;-S
I'll take the sailboard over the dinghy any day, especially in conditions like that. I bet the designers of that boat never meant for it to go out in that wind and swell. Good luck to him I suppose, if he can get away with it.
Thanks for the memories Buster! I got a Laser when I was 15/16, and very lightweight. Used to race in Bass Strait out of Devonport, and that footage would be a typical broad reach leg. Those things are a hell of a lot of fun to sail (not as good as a windsurfer though). I used to reef my sail by wrapping it around the mast a couple of times because I was so light (sail just has leech battens), but still had the inevitable speccy stack.
yes children that is what dinghy sailing was like.. my first was a cold molded moth and the 3 ribs I brokeon a gybing boom racing off Rockingham when cyclone Alby arrived still crack open to this day.
thats WHY they invented widsurfers
Thought there had to a windsurfer in the vid some where
the place looks to good not to windsurf with all that wind
that video goes off tho i like it.
Lasers may not be fast in that stuff, but they certainly FEEL fast to many of us!
They are actually brilliant to sail in waves like that, because to get them going properly you have to work the waves so much that you are really in harmony with them. It's very different to something like a slalom board, cat or skiff, where you're going to fast to handle the waves the same way. The Laser and its turning radius just fits the average size and speed of the normal chop really well.
That's if you've trained a lot - otherwise they can just feel terrible!
9ers and cats are great, but some of us feel that if it's speed we're looking for, we find it in a board. Dinghies can be great to sail without being quick. Different strokes for different folks.
For the top video, is it me or he's more like broad-reaching than reaching?
Also spilling a lotsa wind with the mainsheet? As you must I think if you don't want to overly tilt...
I own a lightweight 27-footer, the keel's so light that I must constantly play with the mainsheet in strong winds just to keep course. Fun to do, but it sure ain't no windsurfing...
