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Europe Mast Thinking - The Danish Concept
When I was coaching the UK Europe Squad back in the late 90's, I had some technical help from Sid Howlett who at the time was Ben Ainslie's technical coach for the Finn. Sid explained that standard Finn mast bend profile was: The mast should have 100% of the fore/aft bend number at the half point (between the bands) with 50% at the quarter and 50% at the 3/4 point. Effectively a perfect segment of a large circle which makes fitting the sail to the mast very easy especially with increasing or decreasing sheet tension. We have to hope that...
RS400 Wing Wangs – What's under the bonnet?
It was time to change my Wing Wang Primary Lines on my RS400 and I had noticed that the wing...
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Rigging an Old Style Laser 6:1 Kicker
(Previous Rooster Blog article from Oct 2015 - updated and restored) For those of us who have been using the...
RS Aero Over Deck Control Lines - Full Video
POST VIDEO NOTE:Please use a separate piece of line to attach the two blocks to the traveller...
Laser - My Mast Rake.
So Lasers are one design? Well almost. There are build tolerances that make small differences to your speed from mast...
