Wind indicator issues
When you sail a Laser, you usually have one of those wind indicators that wraps round the mast. When I swapped from Lasers to Solos I still had mine, but I managed to break the mast mount bit, but with some spare bits of acetal plastic sheet I made a plate that screwed to the side of the forestay adjuster. In fact, it was one of my first blog posts - now lost in the mists of early 2022. It worked reasonably well, but when the forestay went a bit loose downwind the indicator flopped around which didn't help it's accuracy. And being low down on the bow possibly didn't help accuracy either. I got myself a small 3D printer recently and one of my first things I wanted to make was a new mast bracket for the wind indicator. that wasn't too hard, so I made a whole wind indicator. My brother says the mast-mounted ones he uses on the Aero flap around a bit on the sea because the mast bracket is a bit narrow and the elastic rather weedy, so I was able to sort those issues out by
