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Technical Kit
RS800 Ropes by Rooster
Name Length Diameter Type Jib sheet strop 3.4m 4mm Rooster Spectwelve (grey) Jib sheet 4.5m 6mm Rooster AllSpec Pro™ Spinnaker Sheet 12.7m 6mm Rooster AllSpec Pro™ Standard mainsheet 7.25m 9mm Rooster Polilite® 5:1 Mainsheet 10m 9mm Rooster Polilite® New rear sheeting mainsheet 12m 9mm Rooster Polilite® Mainsheet strops 2.5m 4mm Rooster Spectwelve™ Boom strops (main) 0.7m 4mm Rooster Spectwelve™ Boom strops (kicker) 0.9m 4mm Rooster Spectwelve™ Continuous kicker 13.5m 4mm Rooster EasySplice Continuos Control Line Cunningham 13.5m 4mm Rooster EasySplice Continuos Control Line Cunningham tail 1m 4mm Rooster Spectwelve™ Tramp ties 3.6m 4mm Rooster Polyloc™ Toe Strap Ties 0.8m 5mm...
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Rooster
4000 Class Upgrades
Since the Dinghy Show in 2014, Rooster's involvement in the 4000 class could be construed as slow but steady. Early...
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Chandlery
Ronstan Orbit Lashing Blocks and Attachment Methods
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Chandlery
The Laser Boom - Bolt it up! (From the Rooster Archives)
If you have just acquired an old Laser/ILCA dinghy, this was the method of attaching the aft mainsheet block to...
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