Re: New Laser Owner

[Kevin Schultz <snoboard9455@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

my sail number is 116794 and i have cubicontainers ... so i dunno. As long 
as I've owned the boat there wasn't foam.

Kevin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mark" <jme@egr-inc.com>
To: "Geoff Sobering" <geoff_sobering@yahoo.com>; <Laser@laser.org>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: New Laser Owner


> I'd be interested in know how one would "replace" old, dead, waterlogged, 
> broken down foam blocks.  Chain saw and fiberglass?  The plastic bottles 
> seem the logical answer for these situations.
>
> Mark Ehrenborg
> 32167
> (with plastic bottles)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Geoff Sobering" <geoff_sobering@yahoo.com>
> To: <Laser@laser.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 2:28 PM
> Subject: Re: New Laser Owner
>
>
>> --- Chris DiTrani <cditrani@livedata.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 15:38, Kevin Schultz wrote:
>>> > I'm not sure about the foam ....
>>>
>>> It's legal to replace the foam with "cubitainers" (big plastic
>>> bottles).
>>
>> Ummmm...  as irrational as it might seem, the rules appear very
>> clear on this point:
>>
>>   26. REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE
>>   [...]
>>   (e) Except as required to facilitate a major hull repair, the
>>   foam floatation blocks shall not be removed or replaced. When
>>   required to be removed to facilitate a major hull repair, the
>>   replacement floatation equipment shall have an equal volume to
>>   that removed, and shall be of a size that it cannot pass
>> through
>>   a square hole of 220 mm sides. Foam blocks shall not be
>> replaced
>>   with air filled cubicontainer bottles.
>>
>> I don't have my current printed copy of the rules here, so I'm
>> going off the one at
>> http://www.laser.org/c/cnt/down/classrules.pdf
>> I'm pretty sure I've heard Dave Kirkpatrick and others say that it
>> is allowed to break up waterlogged foam and replace it with
>> cubtainers.  I'm confused; is there an interpretation somewhere
>> that make it all rational?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Geoff S.
>> DN US-5156/Laser 145234/Renegade 510
>>
>>
>>
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