This assembly manual has been set up so that you can assemble your landyacht rapidly. Your LUDIC will be delivered split in three or two packages, depending on the type of wheels you ordered: all ground big wheels or not (picture 1).
Unpack your landyacht (pictures 2 and 3). Picture 2: view of some components that have been received (rear axles...). Picture 3: another view of other components also received (rudder bar, wheel, body...). Frame assembly all the components Remove from every pocket of the transport black bag (pictures 4 to 6).
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Firstly, adjust the front tiller to your size: if you are 175 cm tall, we recommend the position #3 (pictures 7 and 8). Picture 7: view of the push pin used or the front tiller adjustment and of the locking screw. Picture 8: view from under of the front tiller.
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Pictures 11: mounting of the type B steering. Then, insert the tail of the pivot into the tiller and tighten the upper hand knurl (picture 12). Picture 12: mounting of the tiller. When equipped with the big wheels, the front fork is a lateral single arm fork (picture 13).
Mount the wheels Picture 16: mounting the wheels. (picture 16) and strongly tighten the ball nuts (picture 17); often check their tightening. If you do not want checking the wheels tightening on a regular basis, you can replace the ball nuts with nylstop type nuts.
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One of the sections of the mast (the 30 mm diameter one) can have a stop ring; Picture 20: view of the 30 mm diameter in that case, you don't mast section and of need one of these red its stop ring. plastic adjustment strips (picture 20).
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Then, raise the whole rig and insert it into its base support (picture 25). Picture 25: view of the landyacht rigging operation. There are two types for the shape of the rear of the sail: either standard (picture 26, left) or round (picture 26, right).
±0.6 bar for the rear wheels and: ± 0.4 bar for the front wheel; note that the maximum pressure for these sand wheels is 1 Bar or 15 PSI. How to carry your LUDIC landyacht To travel by plane and load everything into the main bag, get the sail battens out and fold the sail (picture 28), then enter all the mast sections into each other (picture 29).
Guiding the landyacht when starting Hereafter is presented an easy way to steer your LUDIC like a real competitor. Suppose you want to run and push your landyacht at the start and jump into it when it starts moving. Then you may find practical building a steering stick by yourself.
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Picture 34: basic system to steer the landyacht when pushing it. Relief of the sections tightening Picture 35: the top/right tube When two tubes can hardly slide into the sections (either bottom/left tube of the mast. from the mast or from the boom) hardly slide within each other, one...
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Regular maintenance For a private use, we have chosen to stress on the main aspects of the maintenance of your landyacht. Even if this list seems to be obvious for you, as you may know, a regular maintenance is paramount for a safe and reliable operation of your landyacht given you may use it mostly on a beach.
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Wind Reminder: foremost, you need to set the extrados dogvane to horizontal. This Picture 39: perfect will tell you the power setting of the required to start is there, in Intrados extrados dogvane. your sail (picture 39). Dogvane correctly Extrados set: horizontal and straight Let the landyacht start, then when you move at a minimum speed of about 10 to 15 km/h, you can start...
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Why a landyacht does not perform well in rear wind? When the wind blows from rear, whatever the sail direction, perpendicularly or axially oriented, the landyacht speed is Dogvanes low or even zero. On one hand, if Wind the landyacht moves, then the apparent wind is low, and on another hand, the airflow is turbulent, thus not power efficient.
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Let’s consider now that you would like to progress against the wind. To ride in the wind direction, that is to say towards a location forcing you to move headwind, you will have to tack (to progress with turns close to the wind direction).
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Should you have any technical question or request about spare parts, please feel free to get in touch with: Jean-Philippe Krischer at : krischer@seagull.fr Chars à Voile SEAGULL, Statue de la Liberté, 56880 PLOEREN (FRANCE). Phone: 33 297 400 600 Website: www.seagull.fr...
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