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    Special Edition Lasers

    I think Chas's boat was a Mardi Gras. Saw it only briefly before the sail and rig were nicked! At the 1988 World Masters in Falmouth Jeff was ribbed that his Liberty print Laser was bound to be heavier, but it didn't stop him beating me. If you were at the Mounts Bay Nationals you'll remember...
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    Special Edition Lasers

    'Horizon' is right: it will be 115704, from 1982-ish. The plate will originally have had the '1' printed on, with the following 5 digits stamped into the plate. I think the orange ones might have been called Sunburst, and they had a striped sail to go with the hull - not inconspicuous. In 1983...
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    Sponsors on sails

    Does ILCA Rule 10 make an old Radial sail, which was manufactured with '5.7' in outline graphics on the window, illegal?
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    Laser boom reinforcement

    Constructing a Laser boom is only legal if all the parts used, including the inner sleeve, are new builder-supplied parts (such as gudgeons, boom blocks, vang key fittings and end-caps) or original parts (i.e. a snapped top-section and the inner sleeve from a old legal boom). If you supply your...
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    Fees for the Laser Hull Plaques & Sail Buttons?

    Am I missing something? For several days I have tried to find WS/ILCA-noncompliant Lasers for sale on the Laser Performance UK site, and can find nothing; only Lasers which are advertised at the normal price. (They don't say whether or not they are ILCA/WS-compliant.) Same goes for Sailboats...
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    Draft stripes

    Laser Radial Worlds 2006: German boats with draft stripes in national colours: ISTR they had to come off.
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    Draft stripes

    One reason you don't see them is that they are not permitted under the Fundamental Rule.
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    Mystery device on a Laser

    That looks very much like the three-point mount for the Plastimo compass that was about all that was available for the Laser in the 1970s.
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    Laser: sail number year of construction

    . . . if you are looking for hull construction, I suggest you look at the transom. Not on boats that old!
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    Laser: sail number year of construction

    Bought my first Laser in the UK in October 1977 with the number 52494. Laser numbers were issued in blocks to each manufacturer world-wide to ensure that the boat-numbers in one region were not substantially out of kilter with the other regions. Your boat is likely to be late 1977 - early 1978.
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    Class Politics Introducing the New Official Class Sail

    Any competitor that uses non-legal kit is subject to protest by any other competitor. There is no provision in the ISAF Rules for a club to over-ride the Class Rules, unless it gets permission from the Class Association. Good luck with that.
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    Class Politics The Laser class and ISAF

    Just one point about the Ronstan sheaveless pulley discussed in LaserWorld: it's not Laser-legal. Someone should have copy-checked this with the Measurers.
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    Connector Sleeve Help

    Apologies to you and to APS; saw you had bought one from Intensity, but not that you had bought a second from APS.
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    Connector Sleeve Help

    Maybe if you'd bought a class-legal sleeve it would have fitted . . . .
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    hiking bench

    >> The link for my modified Tillman hiking bench (modified so that you can fold it and hang it up) is no longer at the link quoted above. The current address is: http://www.deadrock.co.uk/laser/bench01.htm The hiking bench in the photos is still going strong; wish the same could be said for the...

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