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If that is how the sails differ, then you will quite possibly run out of range of adjustment both on the outhaul and the cunningham, that is, you can't get them tight enough. But you have to try it first, as it's a matter of spar length and the placement of fittings. Different mast bend may be whole another issue as well.Anything I should keep an eye out for as far as fit and performance goes?
From the stats I found on the interwebs, the Laser sail will be 4" longer at the foot, and 2" longer at the luff.
A sail actually forms an irregular 3D shape, whose true surface area is pretty hard to measure. Any published numbers of one-design sail areas should be treated as ballpark figures.Yet the Sailboat Data website says the Laser has 76 sq ft of area as opposed to the P-13 having 85 sq ft?
The tack end is quite nice and high (which is a good thing), but at the other end you do need to rig a clew tie-down. Take a length of thin (3 or 4 mm) low-stretch rope (Dyneema or pre-stretched polyester) and tie it through the clew eye and around the boom a couple of times. Cut off excess rope (leave a few finger widths of tail) when it's at the right tightness; in a Laser, that would be as tight as possible, but in this case it's probably more practical to leave a few mm of space between the sail and the boom.Foot's a bit high off the boom, but otherwise I reckon it'll work... reminds me of those kids in school whose pants legs were a tad short
...but at the other end you do need to rig a clew tie-down.
Heh, I have the original "Laser Sailing" by Tillman from 1975 The clew tie-down is presented as an essential part of the rigging in that book, although in the pictures they're not very tight yet.I've been using a tie-down since 1975, my usage predating the racing tip which appeared in an early edition of THE NEW LASER SAILING by Dick Tillman, published sometime in the early '80s.
The main point of the early-1980s style of rigging the cleat block on the boom was that the straight boom key allowed it to swivel at a time when actual swiveling shackles were not yet explicitly allowed. Also, it was an upgrade to 4:1 from 3:1.Same book wherein some top racer back in the day suggested slinging the vang's "cleat block" directly off the boom, making it easier for a solo
sailor to grab the dangling bowline tied as a hand loop.