base fitting, Normally, this will work automatically – but it must be checked. Again,
all the time check the side stays are ok on the boat but also not least up on the mast
where these are fixed to the mast – here the side stays can also make trouble and
twist in the bigger Quick link fitting.
11.
Now you can fix the forestay to the boat or furler drum (sometimes clients prefer
having the furler drum on the forestay and other´s leave the furler drum on the boat´s
forestay fitting). When setting the mast the first couple of times the side stays can be
tight and cause the forestay to be 1 or 2 cm too short – for this we recommend to
just install a smaller shackle on the portside side stay chain plate on the float and
after setting the mast before you go sailing – you remove this shackle again (when
the float is folded out, the side stay is slack again).
12.
When forestay is well secured and fixed with the clevis pin, you can now remove all
the mast support tubes, the mast base pivot fitting and you can swing the mainsail
boom around and fix this on the normal position on the mast (leave the spinnaker
halyard on for this as this will still hold the boom up for you).
SETTING THE JIB :
Before hoisting the jib, make sure to roll some furling line on the furling drum. Turn the
furling drum clockwise until you have one metre (approx. three feet) line left in the cockpit.
This way you are able to furl the jib at once when it is hoisted. Now you open the zip in the
luff of the jib, you fix the Dyneema halyard on top of the jib and make sure the halyard is
inside the luff of the jib and you put the luff of the jib around the forestay and the halyard,
start to zip the luff of the jib and now you pull up the jib and zip at the same time. Make sure
the three battens are mounted in the leach of the sail. When the jib is pulled all the way up,
take off the extra line in the halyard and fix the eye in the jib halyard to the smaller snap
shackle that is fixed on the furling drum itself. Tie down the luff of the jib with a smaller line
and around the forestay and install the 2:1 jib sheet and furl up the jib.
MOUNTING THE MAINSAIL :
The sail is placed on the boom between the lazy-jacks and start from the top of the sail. The
boat must be up into the wind. For the Sport version mount the headboard (the top of the
sail) into the top double batten car on the mast. Then hoist the sail to the next batten car,
fit the next batten car etc. etc. Important – the stainless-steel link/thread must be installed
so the nut is on the topside of the batten car. Then there are also a few intermediate cars
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