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Assembling the Vang:
Optimist Safety
1. Locate the vang wire
attached to the forward
boom button (Figure 29).
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2. Retrieve the vang line
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from the line bag. With a
Optimist class rules as most of
bowline, tie the vang line to
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the thimble located at the
end of the vang wire
for racing.
(Figure 30).
3. Lead the vang line up
through the clam cleat
located on the mast just
above the thwart
(Figure 31).
To keep water out of the boat,
4. Cleat off. Tie a stopper
knot in the end of the vang
have a bailer handy.
line (Figure 32).
Attaching the Painter:
1. Locate the bow loop and painter line from the line bag. Take the bow loop line and thread both ends
Don't rely on the breeze,
down through the small hole on the topside of the bow (Figure 33 & 34).
have a paddle.
2. Tie off the two ends the bow loop with a square knot (Figure 35).
3. Pull up on the bow loop so that the square knot is snugly secured beneath the rail of the bow.
4. Wrap the painter line around the mast step, underneath the adjustor bolt, and secure it with a
bowline (Figure 36). Lead the line up through the bow loop (Figure 37). Place the remainder of the
painter in the bow of the boat.
Make sure your bailer and
paddle are secured into the
boat and out of your way.
Figure 33
Figure 36
Always wear your lifejacket!
Vang
Thimble
Wire
Clam Cleat
Figure 29
Figure 30
Figure 31
Completed Vang
Figure 32
Figure 34
Figure 35
Figure 37
Rigging the Sprit Halyard:
Attached
Micro Single
Block
Figure 39
Micro Single
Block
Halyard
Cleat
Figure 42
Attaching the Sprit:
The sprit has two differing ends. One end has a rubber sleeve covering a section of the aluminum. This end will attach to the sprit halyard
as the rubber is used to reduce the chafe against the mast.
2. Place the sprit end without the
1. Locate the sprit loop at the head of
rubber sleeve into the loop in the head
the sail.
of the sail.
1. Locate the upper and lower sprit
halyard line from the line bag. Retrieve
the micro single block from the delivery
kit.
2. Tie a bowline in one end of the upper
sprit halyard. Making sure to leave a
very small loop that can then be placed
Figure 38
onto the end of the sprit pole
(Figure 38).
3. Run the free end of the line through
the micro single block that is attached to
the middle of the mast (Figure 39).
4. Tie a bowline to the micro single
block with the free end of the upper sprit
halyard line (Figure 40).
5. With the lower sprit halyard line tie
a bowline to the top of the halyard cleat
located on the mast below the boom
connection (Figure 41).
Figure 40
6. Lead the line through the micro
single block and then back through the
cleat to secure (Figure 42).
7. Place a stopper knot in the tail of the
lower halyard line.
Figure 41
3. Place the opposite end of the sprit into
the small loop created by the bowline in the
upper sprit halyard. Pull on the lower sprit
halyard to raise the top of the sail.
Rubber
Chafe Sleeve
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