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3465 will be there

Welland YC looks forward to welcoming the 12's this year and everyone's pretty excited about it, for those not familiar with the area it's a fairly narrow river but does have two 45 degree bends and the course can be up to a mile and half up river so there's plenty of variety. If you can't tack well before you come to Welland you will be able to by the time you leave
Andy

Thanks Jane,
Would love to attend the Steve Nicholson but am away that weekend (I think a number of our club members are attending though ) , so I think I'll give the Tiger a try despite the lack of youth in the back of the boat
Wouldn't it be good if some of the quicker 12's attended to show the large youth contingent that ther is an alternative to a RS200 or a 420

Has anyone entered the Tiger Trophy at Rutland before?
It takes place on the 7th & 8th of February this year and am thinking of entering but wondered if anyone had any feedback from previous years
(have decided the only way to get better is by competing in as many big events as possible)

Any one know how to fit an Ice Breaker to the front of a foolish?

Thanks for the advice Anthony, we'll give it a go  

Hi John,
Charlotte and i are thinking of going to the Blody Mary, is it just the one race and if so roughly how long do we get on the water?
We did the Grafham Grand Prix on Sunday and had a great time so fancy a go at this (would have been nice to see a 12 nearer the front of the fleet though)

We'll be going with 3465, can't see any others on the entry list

Thanks for everyones input, by my reckoning I can get 164 to 1 purchase if I adopt all the methods suggested!
Seriously I think I may bite the bullet and go for the metal rod, Martin, your offer of the offcut would be much appreciated, the only thing I'm still not sure on is how's the metal rod anchored inside the boom?
In the mean time I'll alter the bridle to get rid of the shackle and use thiner 'string tied myself' as Anthony suggested
Martin is your e mail in the N12 book?

Now winter's arrived I've turned to thinking what needs doing to improve our Feeling Foolish (3465)and most thoughts centre around the current outhaul arrangement with which we have never been entirely happy. In it's current form it gives us three main problems
1 there is not enough purchase for the crew to be able to pull it on hard when sailing in a blow going from a reach to a beat
2. in a bid to make the foot of the sail slide easily i added a sries of 'stoppers' (balls) to the outhaul bridle which helped but it has caused the boom to now be 6 cm lower meaning i get hit by it on most tacks (maybe I'm just too old?)
3.The outhaul doesn't slide back up the boom anything like as easily it does on my laser (this has elastic to pull it back)
So: Ideas please to improve all these points in one go, I guess the boat currently has an 'out of the box' set up with the outhaul controlled from both sides of the thwart to a single line that appears to travel inside the boom as a straight 1 to 1 puchase, then out the end of the boom through the hole in the foot of the sail and ties off on the end of the boom. The sail is held to the boom via a shackle attacked to the rope bridle threaded though the above mentioned stoppers
Would a standard HD laser set up work or are there better solutions?
ps Also is it easy to get the centreboard out as I need to replace one of the screws in the friction plate as its bent and i cant get to it in situ
 
All suggestions greatfully received :-/

Put me down for a red one please, will be there on the Saturday
andy

Kevin,
Not sure I really want to own up to this but we are down as a 5th at Ripon which I think is taken from the results produced by Ripon SC. This credits us (3365 Crouching Tiger) with 5, 8, 5 for the three races but given our boat was safely packed up by the third race with the crew refusing to go anywhere near the water ever again the 5th must belong to someone else.
You have 9 starters which is correct but another boat should be there instead of us -
Anyone missing a 5th in the last race?   Andy & Charlotte

we will only be doing the Saturdy at Ripon as we had already agreed to do an open meeting nearer home on the sunday

Hi, Charlotte and I will be attending in 3465 Crouching Tigger (Tiger)

Are you sure, whilst sailing at Rutland a couple of weeks ago the Solo Inlands were on and all the sails looked pretty white to me, my brother in law also sails a pretty new and very competitive solo and all of his numerous sets of sails are Dacron but he still gets through them as quickly as us!