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When reefing or furling your sail, ir is imporranr ro head up into the wind and
ease sheets. Keep minimal sheet tension to hold a tight furl. If you have your hal-
yard tightened up to maintain luff shape, ease the halyard to help prevent halyard
wrapping and to free up the movement in rhe system.
Due to the great variation in masthead construction, sail stretch and individual
halyard loads, the following sail installation steps should be carefully followed. If
you install your Seafurl as follows, a smoothly operating sysrem will be assured.
Attach the head of the sail to the lower shackle of the halyard swivel, but Do
NOT attach the tack.
F-eed the sail tape into one of the luff grooves as you hoist it.
Hoist the swivel and sail as high as it will go, without straining, and secure. Be
careful not to hoist the halyard'swivel beyond the extrusion. Downhaul rhe sail,
utilizing a spare line temporarily attached to the sail tack and lead rhrough the
line drive sheave shackle until the maximum desired luff tension is achieved.
Furl and unfurl the sail several times while watching the halyard swivel ro see if
it is rotating smoothly and not being restricted in its operation.
If the final distance between the sail tack and tack shackle "X" (Figure 7) is
greater than 6" the temporary lashing should be replaced with a permanenr wire
Pennant. This pennant can be placed either between the head of the sail and the
halyard swivel or between the tack of the sail and the tack shackle on the drive
sheave. If this distance "X" is less than 6", a pennant lashing (a minimum of 3
turns of line) can be used.
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