On 18.08.99 Rebecca ranted...
>Your stupid arguments simply stated:
>If I can assemble a special boat out of assorted legal parts it ought to be
legal.
YOUR stupid statement simply argued:
A youth sailor with a #100000+ boat breaks his blade and can't afford a new
one from the Laser shop for $hundreds. His only possibility is to buy an old
"never painted or modified in any way" second-hand blade but this excludes
him from racing at his local club because his Laser-manufactured and
authorised blade is judged in some way illegal.
If it is original equipment then it is legal.
She then stated:
>Your assembled hybred super Laser made up of all "legal" parts may be
>technically legal. That does not make it right.
Well actually, according to the rules it does. I doubt that there is a
single Laser owner in the history of the class that has tried to assemble a
collection of superior Laser parts. Even if anyone were foolish enough to
try this they wouldn't gain any more competetive advantage than say; wearing
weight in heavy air so what is the problem?
All lasers are not born equal. The Laser hull has about the same dimensional
quality as plastic bath-tubs. It's a fantastic bath-tub I'll agree but 3mm
of blade thickness means nothing to a boat that has so much dimensional
variance in production methods, weights, materials etc.
Buy one.
Polish it.
Rig it.
Sail it.
On second thoughts don't polish it. It might just go a little faster than
the unpolished ones.
Can we please get back to sailing topics. This is very boring.
Jon
19500 with old recycled golf-club tiller-extension - Gasp! Is that legal ;->
