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MAINTENANCE
Rinse the drum unit once a year with fresh water (no dismantling required).
- No other special maintenance is needed.
PROBLEM
ENCOUNTERED
CAUSE
SOTUTION
Halyard turns with the
halyard swivel
- Forestay not taut enough
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- Genoa halyard too slack
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- Genoa too short, halyard swivel too
low
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- Genoa halyard too close to the
forestay
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- tighten the backstay
- tauten the genoa halyard
- Use a strop
- Fasten a halyard feeder to the mast
or a diverter to the forestay
The halyard tends to wrap
itself around the spar when
the genoa is hoisted
- Halyard is worn and thus twists in
the direction of the rope strands
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- Change the halyard
Reefing line fouls
- Wrong angle on reefing line
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- First sheave too far from drum
unit
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- Genoa unfurled too quickly
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- Change position of first sheave
- Slow down the unfurling of the
genoa by winding the reefing line
once round a winch.
Genoa difficult to hoist
- Poor output from a sheave
- Halyard jammed
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- Luffrope too large
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- Try with a different halyard
- Change luffrope
fresh water
