Rigging the Laser® Sailboat

I have received requests to show how I rig my Laser® There are many variations and different lines that you can use. This is my Frostbite boat. The rigging is the same and what I am used to. Experimenting until you get what works well for you is your best choice.

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Education

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• Laser
• Sail
• Sailboat
• rigging

[Intensitysails]

Yes. This set up is fully class legal to the current rules.

[tincoffin]

Isnt it odd that the Laser designed to be the simplest most one-design ,equal boat in the world has become the hardest to rig and the variation in the rigging is greater than in any other class. There are lessons outside sailing eg politics in this.

[NinjaGirl2646]

YA CANT BEAT A LASER I LUV THOSE THINGS

[nj609eagle]

I'd live to see this as a step by step. I can remember how do to it. I do t own a laser....yet, but have opportunities often to sail one.

[KanzlerM]

Is this one class legal?

It looks like the outhaul, cunningham and vang have more purchase than my old Laser did. Are you allowed to run the outhaul and cunningham to the deck and aft like that? I did that on mine, but figured it wouldn't be class legal anymore. But that was 25 years ago.

[tincoffin]

@hagenar I used to sail a 505 35 years ago ! I have just gone back to dinghies its all the damn bits of string on the Laser . It seems quite a bit easier if you have all the modified bits . I just have the original.

[hagenar]

@tincoffin It's still simpler and less varied than almost all other classes.

Poke your head inside a 505 someday. Or any non one-design class boat. Custom hulls, masts, booms, foils, sails, and more rigging permutations than you could imagine.

Lasers look incredibly equal in comparison.

[cjwalsh7]

you should make a video of you actually rigging it up, it would be very helpful

[skater11295]

i love sailing lasers