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ishardlow


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Australia
Posted - 15 Feb 2002           
Instructions  FOR  ASSEMBLY  OF  SEA  WIND  24  CATAMARAN:
  1. Release locking bolts on trailer slides.

  2. Pull trailer slides out, (one person on each end pulling evenly), until mark on trailer or stop rope ends.

  3. Release all rubber straps and ropes.

  4. Place fore and aft beams in position.

  5. Locate with bolts. Tighten.

  6. Place centre beam on castings, tilted so that aft tramps can slide into track.  (if trailing regularly, leave aft tramps around beam; if not, look for port and starboard marks on tramps.)

  7. Push centre beam down into castings.

  8. Drop in locating bolts, (no nuts).

  9. Move mast over to one of the cockpits.

  10. Remove aft mast support.

  11. Position centre console over locating blocks and fasten.

  12. Pull aft tramps through tracks. Fit conduit, (first time only); lace tramps to open hooks on beam using fore and aft, not diagonal lacing. (once the rope is threaded it is permanent with only loosening required to release the tramps).

  13. Slide forward tramp into track on centre beam.

  14. Slide sides of forward tramp into bolt rope tracks. (fit conduit and lacing.

  15. STEPPING OF THE MAST.

  1. Move mast forward and position step into hinge.

  2. Secure spanner to the centre console cleat. (this is important in case the step jumps off the hinge and damages vehicle).

  3. Using 10ml rope with two hooks, supplied, control the mast rotatation by tying the centre to the mast spanner and hooking each end to the ¼” saddles at the ends of the centre beam. (it is easier to attach the boom if the mast and spanner twist 10 deg).   (this rope is used to control mast rotation during sailing.)

  4. Attach boom goose neck to track on mast.

  5. Shackle main halyard to end of boom. Cleat main halyard onto horn cleat on mast leaving 6” of halyard wire through top pulley.

  6. Centralise traveller car.

  7. Tie main sheet to double block on traveller.

  8. Pass main sheet through middle and aft blocks on boom with rope going aft; then through bottom of double block and then through the spring block on the centre console to the winch – giving 2:1 purchase.

  9. The 8mm rope with hooks, supplied to be attached as follows. Release boom outhaul, bringing slide towards mast. Attach middle hook to slide. Hook one end of rope to the saddle on centre beam. Using the other side of the rope, pull the boom upright and hook the remaining end to the centre beam. Tighten boom outhaul.

  10. Fix forestay to eye bolt in the centre of front beam.

  11. Fix side stays to saddles on ends of centre beam using rope and hooks attach to turnbuckles.

  12. Check all stays. Check that boom and mast are triangulated. Check main halyard is secure.

  13. Use main sheet un winch to raise mast.

  14. Just before mast reaches upright position, check that front turnbuckle is not twisted.

  15. When mast is in position, secure mainsheet on two winches and cleat on centre console. The mast will lean to one side.

  16. Release the slack stay, keeping firm pressure on it, fasten to chain plate.

  17. Carefully release rope from boom end to saddle on that side.

  18. Keeping firm pressure on main sheet, pull boom and traveller over to the other side taking the strain from the remaining stay.  Secure traveller and main sheet.

  19. Release stay from centre beam and fix to chain plate. (if it seems short, pull on main sheet to bring the boom down and the mast over.)

  20. Check all three stays.

  21. Release boom centralising rope. Stow.

  22. Unhook mast spanner rope from saddles and cleat onto horn cleat on centre console to control mast rotation.

  23. Rethread main sheet.

16.    Tighten stays and diamonds.
17.    Fit tiller bar. Lockson nuts hand tight.

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