SETTING THE GENOA ON MANUAL FURLING SYSTEM:
Before hoisting the genoa, make sure to roll/furl some furling line up on the
furling drum. Turn the head foil anti-clockwise, until you have only about 2
meters (approx. 6 feet) line left in the cockpit. Like this, you can furl the genoa at
once, when the genoa is hoisted. The luff is mounted in the shackle above the
furling drum. Luff tension is adjusted via the jib halyard. The genoa/jib halyard is
fixed to the movable swivel at the head foil and the genoa top to the lower part
of the swivel. Make sure the boat is folded out on both sides, before setting sails,
and best is to face the boat into the wind (boats with electric furler can just set
the sail and forget about furling line).
MOUNTING THE MAINSAIL:
The boat is folded out on both sides and facing the wind. The mainsail is placed
on one trampoline. Start from the top of the mainsail. Mount the headboard (the
top of the sail) into the top double Ronstan batten car on the mast. Then hoist
the sail to the next batten fitting and fit the stainless bolt into the next batten car
with the nut on top etc. Use key No. 13 for the nuts on the batten cars. There are
also some intermediate cars between the battens, where the sail is fixed to the
mast with a simple plastic pin. Remember also to fit the two reefing lines in the
sail as you hoist and mount the mainsail.
Taking the mainsail off again, never take off the Ronstan batten cars from the
mast track, as all the balls will fall out – just loosen the 8 mm nut on the batten
car, that is fixed to the batten pocket on the mainsail.
Only set the mainsail in calm wind conditions and boat facing into the wind.
When the mainsail is up, you can easily install the single line Lazy Jack system,
which also works as a topping lift to hold up the mainsail boom. The Lazy Jack has
only one line, please see a photo of the boat under sail which will show this
easily. You need a boatsman’s chair to install the Lazy Jack system.
REEFING LINES BACK ON THE BOOM:
The reefing lines in the back end of the boom come out from a sheave, Reef 1 on
port side and Reef 2 on the SB side. Take the reefing line through the aluminum
eye back in the mainsail, then down and through the eyes in the mainsail boom
and up again and fasten the reefing line in the Aluminum eye on the “outside” of
the eye, Reef 2 line through the forward eyes on the boom and Reef 1 through
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