Cantiere Del Pardo Grand Soleil 39, Owner'S Manual, Page: 9 / 132

Ed. 04/2012
GS 39 m.y. 2012
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CHAP. 2
2. INTRODUCTION TO THE MANUAL
This manual has been compiled to help you use your boat in safety and with the
greatest possible satisfaction.
It is important for you to dedicate sufficient time to carefully reading this manual, in
calm and without distractions, so as to acquire the information needed to use your
boat safely. We advise you therefore to read this manual carefully and to familiarize
yourself with the boat before sailing.
This manual gives explanations about your boat and the systems and equipment
installed or supplied, together with practical instructions for its use and brief
descriptions of basic maintenance procedures.
Clearly, this manual is neither intended to or is able to replace the specific instructions
compiled by the manufacturers of the equipment and components installed on board.
To acquire the required expertise in the use of your boat and its systems you must
read not only this manual but also the rest of the documentation supplied separately
(and in particular the instruction booklet provided by the manufacturers of equipment
and systems).
This owner’s manual is not a course on boating safety or seamanship, and neither
is it a detailed maintenance or trouble-shooting guide, although it contains several
indications of this type to give suggestions that in our experience are most frequently
necessary.
Although everything has been planned and designed for the safety of the boat and
the persons on board, the use of a leisure craft is highly dependant on weather
conditions, sea conditions, the experience and fitness of the crew and similar factors.
It is therefore impossible to guarantee total safety.
Your boat has been designed to comply with “Design Category A” specifications,
and therefore conforms to the most rigorous standards, but you must also be aware
that the wind and sea conditions envisaged by these specifications correspond to a
strong gale, with the risk of freak waves and heavy gusts, and therefore constitute
truly dangerous conditions, in which only a skilled, fit and trained crew manning a
well-maintained boat prepared for these conditions can sail satisfactorily.
Always consult an updated weather forecast prior to sailing, and ensure that wind
and sea conditions will be compatible with the design category of your boat, and that
you and your crew will be able to handle it in these conditions.
If this is your first boat, or if it is a type of boat with which you are not familiar, for
your own comfort and safety you should be sure that you gain sufficient experience
in handling and using it before you take command.
Any boat, no matter how strong it may be, can be severely damaged if used improperly.
This is not compatible with safe boating. Always adjust the course and sail surface of
the craft to wind and sea conditions, so as to avoid excessive strain on the boat and
difficult and tiring conditions for all persons on board. Reduce sail surface promptly
with increases in wind. Always attempt to foresee changes in weather conditions,
preparing the boat and the crew for the imminent situation.
Ensure that maintenance, any necessary repairs and any minor modifications are
carried out solely by qualified and suitably trained persons. If more extensive work
is done on the boat, ensure that the persons carrying this out do not compromise
the essential safety requisites of the boat, and if major structural work is done, that
any such work that may affect safety characteristics has been assessed, carried out
and documented by competent persons. The builder cannot be held responsible for
modifications that it has not approved.