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Brand: Optiparts

€10.75

Large, lightweight and durable handbailers. The wide ergonomic base creates more bailing capacity with each stroke, the curved bottom to follow the bailing motion and a triangular top so you don’t stuck behind the gunwale. High handle with end stop to prevent slipping out of your hand, with integrated shockcord fastening. Reinforced wear areas, rounded front lip and stackable for transportation.

Length 24 cm, width 17 cm

Brand: Optiparts

€210.00

This Optimist Silver regatta mast is less stiff than Blackgold spars and is ideal for lightweight Optimist sailors who just started racing.

It’s made of high quality aluminium tube and fitted with:

  • Aluminium halyard and downhaul Clamcleats EX1381
  • Stainless steel hook-in block backing plate Plain bearing hook-in block EX1340
  • Plain bearing 19 mm halyard block EX1332
  • Low friction wind indicator EX1243
  • Set of nylon top pins EX1338
  • Pin stop EX13372
  • Blue measurement band sticker EX1333B
  • 4 mm 2:1 polyester halyard

Brand: Optiparts

€135.00

The lightweight 40 mm Optimist SILVER regatta boom from Optiparts is much stiffer than the 32mm school boom and will allow the Optimist sailor to put more tension on the leach.

Fitted with:

  • Blue nylon V-cleat EX1405B
  • Pin stops EX13373
  • Red trimstrip EX1358R
  • 4 mm polyester outhaul
  • 3 mm Vectran bridle with ring
  • 3 mm Vectran boom preventer
  • 3 mm spliced Dyneema / 6 mm polyester vang

Brand: Optiparts

€17.95

PRO Daggerboard insert for Optimist.

This package includes 2 PRO front daggerboard inserts, 2 PRO back daggerboard inserts, made of wear resistant TPU rubber and comes with glue and sandpaper.

The PRO daggerboard inserts offer advantages over the EX1116; non-slip edges for improved grip within the daggerboard case, a pre-shaped contour to simplify positioning of the daggerboard and a sloping top design to prevent losing the inserts.

Brand: Optiparts

€189.95

Protect your Optimist hull from being scratched with this Optiparts UV resistant bottom cover.

Made of 320 gsm 600D solution dyed polyester with EVA backing, high quality 190T inner lining and closed cell foam in between.

Solution dyed polyester has much better color fastness and UV resistant characteristics than cheaper pigment dyed polyester. 

Brand: Optiparts

€43.95

The first book with over 75 specific exercises organized by category and difficulty to serve as a guideline and inspiration for coaches and trainers at clubs. The book Written by Pim Stumpel & Ben Koppelaar both award winning Dutch dinghy coaches. Pim & Ben have written down all the exercises they use to train and coach sailors. With the support of Huub Lambriex (1984 Olympic Tornado sailor and mental coach) they have created tools to help coaches, program-managers and sailors set goals and structurally train to become better sailors.

Language: English

Brand: Optiparts

€34.95

Optimist racing coach Attila Hodacs reveals 20 years of his coaching experience in this 85 page book. Topics included: The phases of development, how to lead optimist sailors to international level racing, setting up training sessions with different exercises, how to improve boathandling skills, strategy and how to minimize mistakes.

A must have for every trainer, coach or interested parent.

Brand: Optiparts

€18.50

The 130-page history, illustrated by almost as many photos mostly in colour, tells the story of how an ‘Orange Crate’ from Florida became the junior boat in over 120 countries.

It includes an 18-page supplement by Clifford McKay Jr., the first boy to sail the Optimist, with some fabulous photos of the early days. The story is taken up by Robert Wilkes who worked with the Optimist Class for over 35 years and had access to it’s archives. Young people tend to ask why things are the way they are. This history gives the answer for their beloved little boat..

Written by Robert Wilkes and Clifford McKay Jr.

Brand: Fernhurst Books

€22.99

Optimist Racing is written for those sailors, parents and coaches who are looking for success in this competitive class. In it you will learn what it takes to win, including how to achieve blistering boatspeed through technique and tuning, perfect boat handling and tactics as well as covering the mental and physical requirements for success. There is also a section for parents and coaches describing how they can best support their young sailors.

Brand: Optiparts

€10.95

This releasable rubber joint for 16 mm tiller extension is mounted with an aluminium pin only. The rope core will avoid complete failure should the rubber tear.

Mounted with pin which is kept in place by a piece of heat shrinkable tubing. The distance between the mounting hole centres of all joints is 32 mm.

To remove a joint: simply cut off the tubing and push the pin out.

Brand: Fernhurst Books

€11.40

Out of all the explanations for why a sailor has lost out on a race, an unforeseen change in the wind and the weather is by far one of the most frequent. Whether a bad windshift; the non-occurrence of a sea breeze; or being becalmed, the weather has a huge impact on racing. However, it is not hard to turn these problems around. This handy guide has all you need to work out the best way to use the wind to your advantage and boost you up the fleet.

Brand: Fernhurst Books

€22.99

Rules in Practice has been the best-selling guide to the racing rules for the last 40 years. Now, in its 10th edition, it has been updated for (and contains in full) the 2021-2024 Racing Rules of Sailing and features a brand new chapter on the luffing rules and how they are being applied. The latest rule changes are also described, along with their impact on you as a sailor.

Brand: Fernhurst Books

€11.40

A compact, handy summary of the key things you need to know to start racing or refresh your knowledge: the perfect quick reference guide to keep in your kit bag.

The book covers all the racing essentials: courses, rules, the start, beat, reach, downwind, mark rounding, finish, protests and flags in a highly illustrated format making it easy to understand at a glance – ideal for those moments when you need an answer, and you need it fast!

Splash-proof and spiral bound, this little companion stands up to frequent use and serves as a great aide-memoire that will fit into your pocket or kit bag.

Brand: Fernhurst Books

€22.99

Sir Ben Ainslie won his first two Olympic medals (silver, then gold) in the Laser Class. After winning the gold medal he wrote down the secrets that won him that medal in this book. This new edition is published to mark the 20th anniversary of that first of his four Olympic gold medals. It features a brand-new introduction by Ben reflecting on his victory 20 years ago.

It is the only how-to book that the world’s most successful Olympic sailor has written and so, while he and the Laser class have moved on, this is the only place where you can gain access to Ben’s skills and thought process. It is an invaluable guide on how to perform at the top of the Laser class or, indeed, any single-handed sailing dinghy.

Brand: Fernhurst Books

€14.00

Team racing is fast and furious. It places a great deal of emphasis on teamwork, boat handling and rules knowledge. It is a fun sport in its own right and a great way of learning to become a future champion.

Packed full with diagrams to illustrate the text, this companion describes the most useful moves around the race course, and the key rules that govern such moves. There are then sections on how to slow and how to overtake; how to win the start and how to control the final beat; the best routines for practising; how to develop as a team, from beginner to champion; the process for umpired sailing; and team roles, and how to make sure everyone enjoys playing a full part in the team.

Brand: Fernhurst Books

€11.40

Modern braided ropes have transformed sailing with incredible strength from ever smaller thickness. They are a godsend to the racing sailor who is always looking for strength without additional weight.

The nature of these ropes requires different techniques to join them together or make eyes to attach to fittings and this is where this book comes in. It provides a guide to the different types of braided ropes – where to use them and how to splice them for typical uses on a racing sailboat.

It provides clear easy-to-follow photographs and is splash-proof and spiral bound, which means that it is perfect to take into the dinghy park or onboard and use where you need to do your splicing. It lays out flat, so you don’t have to hold it open as you follow the sequences with ropes in your hand!

Brand: Fernhurst Books

€26.99

The Laser was launched just over 50 years ago and has now been renamed the ILCA dinghy and moved to multiple licensed builders. To reflect this change, the leading book on Laser Sailing since 1979, The Laser Book, has now been renamed The ILCA Book. In this latest update, it has also moved from a single author, with ILCA guru, Jon Emmett, joining the original author, Tim Davison.

Brand: Fernhurst Books

€22.50

Since the development of the International Moth into a fully foiling dinghy there has been an explosion in the popularity of the class with some of the world’s top sailors competing in it and many others enjoying the exhilaration of ‘flying’. However there is no doubt that it is a challenge to learn to fly a Moth and other designs are being introduced which are easier to sail and provide foiling opportunities for less dedicated, larger and less agile sailors.