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- Page 3 2) Insert keel into hull and turn locking lever. Rotate lever lock 90 to secure keel in place. 3) Place boat upright in stand. 4) Insert rudder into rudder tube. Using Allen wrench supplied, tighten tiller arm onto rudder shaft, making sure that it‘s at a 90 degree angle to the rudder blade.
- Page 4 5)Take bottom mast and boom section and insert mast into pocket of main sail. Carefully put upper section and lower section together, making sure that the gooseneck is point- ing back and the jib hoist is pointing forward. Slide boom through loop 1 and then slide O-ring 2 onto boom and place hook 3 in the hole bottom of boom.
- Page 5 7) Place mast butt in hole in deck. Fit G to G 8 ) C o n n e c t j i b takedown hook to takedown bracket in the front of the boat. Fit A to A 9)Hook side shrouds to side shroud takedown brackets.
- Page 6 10) Hook backstay onto backstay bracket. Fit D to D 11) Using bowsie on top of the mast, tighten side shrouds and gently tighten backstay.
- Page 7 12) Take main sheet and put through hole in main boom. Then insert sheet hook into hole in boom and slide back rubber O-ring to lock. Repeat with jib sheet and jib boom. Rubber O-ring lock Main /Jib sheet Sheet line hook Boom Place hook in hole.
- Page 8 13) The hatch cover on the hull seals in the batteries and servo. Take hatch cover off, pull out battery holder and insert batteries. On the transmitter, take radio cover off and insert bat- teries. IMPORTANT: Make sure you have inserted all batter- ies in the right direction.
- Page 9 WARRANTY Megatech warrants this product to be free from original manufacturing defects for 90 days from purchase by the consumer. Megatech makes no express or implied claims regarding this product once it has been assembled and used. This warranty does not cover damage from intentional misuse, abuse, fire, flood, or other damage unrelated to the use of this product for the purpose of which such products are normally intended.
- Page 10 *As a guide to trim the sail properly, no matter what course you are sailing, ease the sail out until it begins to luff. Next, pull it in until the luffing stops. This is all you need to know to start sailing your Nirvana sailboat. Good luck and good sailing! WIND DIRECTION...
- Page 11 Sailboat racing is a lot of fun. If you are already familiar with yacht racing rules, those rules can be used when racing your Nirvana. The following are five basic rules and race course will allow you to compete on the water with experienced sailors.
- Page 12 2. Buoy room rule The buoy room rule applies when boats are rounding or passing a buoy or an obstruction on a race course. You must imagine a circle around the buoy or obstruction -- the radius of the circle is four boat lengths (figure A). When your boat's bow touches the imagined circle (figure B), imagine a line parallel to the back of your boat.
- Page 13 3. Contact with buoys rule A boat that makes contact with a buoy must sail away from the fleet, out of the way of other boats, and do a 360-degree penalty turn(figure E). After the penalty turn, the boat may resume racing. If the boat hits the buoy on the wrong side of the buoy, it must re- round the buoy on the correct side before doing the 360-degree penalty turn (figure E1).
- Page 14 4. Luffing rights rule This rule applies when you are passing another boat at close proximity. Figure F indicates the windward and leeward sides of a boat. On the starboard tack the starboard side of the boat is the windward side. on port tack, the port side of the boat is the windward side.
- Page 15 A leeward boat that is luffing up cannot sail past head to wind (figure I). WIND DIRECTION Figure I Head to wind Past head to wind Your boat is sailing "head to wind" when the bow of the boat is pointed directly into the wind.
- Page 16 THE RACE COURSE There are an infinite number of possible race courses you can sail -- the only limit is your imagination. The most common course is the Modified Olympic course. WIND DIRECTION Start / Finish line Wing buoy Jockey for the best position during a one minute countdown.
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