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Introduction
This manual has been compiled to help you to operate your craft with safety and pleasure: It is assumed that you
have obtained sufficient expertise to rig and sail your new boat. If this is your first boat and you have not received
approved instruction then we would strongly recommend that you contact a certified sailing school and obtain
appropriate training and instruction.
Please keep this manual in a secure place, and hand it to the new owner when you sell the boat.
Please take note of the following dangers:
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The mast is metal and is an electrical conductor, contact with overhead electrical wires could be fatal,
please exercise extreme caution when raising the mast, launching and sailing.
Always wear a suitable C.E. approved personal buoyancy jacket.
Always ensure that the rudder retaining clip is operating correctly and the split ring is fitted,
so that the rudder cannot fall off in the event of a capsize.
All wire rigging, ropes, spars and fittings should be regularly inspected for ‘wear and tear’
or damage.
Always ensure that shackles are done up tight and split rings are not distorted.
Always check that the transom bung and hatches are done up tight and all fittings are secure.
If transporting your boat on the roof of your car ensure that you do not exceed the maximum roof
rack load of your car.
If transporting your boat by road trailer ensure that the load does not exceed the permitted
axle weight of the trailer.
Always ensure that you sail with the minimum number of people to recover the boat after
a capsize.
Always inform someone else of your intentions before going afloat.
Do not exceed the maximum number of persons OR the maximum load as detailed in this manual.
Do not puncture air tanks with additional fittings.
Always rig your craft in accordance to the rigging manual provided separately with your craft.
In the sport of sailing there is a risk of finger or toe entrapment between moving components.
Ie. Rudder stock, rudder blade and tiller. Centrboard/Keel and casing, boom and mast, traveller and car,
mast heel hinge piont and gate or step location, blocks and running rigging. Appropriate care and caution is
required.
Sailing barefoot can lead to injury. LaserPerformance recommend that suitable shoes are worn when using
LaserPerformance products.
In the sport of sailing there is a risk of being hit on the head with the boom whist rigging or manoevering
the boat. Appropriate care and caution is required.
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