Hallberg-Rassy 34.2 Installation guide

Offshore Sailing
34.2
TRAINING MANUAL

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CONTENTS
RAFSA(O) HR 34.2 TRAINING MANUAL
Chap
Subject
Page
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Contents
Introduction
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Storm Sail Rigging
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2
Rigging the Preventer
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3
Reefing
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4
Man Overboard Techniques
• Returning to the Survivor
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• MOB Recovery
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o Boat Hook
o Lasso
o Boarding Ladder
o Halyard Lift
o Handy Billy
o Boom & Mainsheet Lift
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5
Adjusting Backstay Tension
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6
Poling Out the Headsail
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7
Spinnaker Hoisting, Flying and Dropping
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8
Anchoring
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INTRODUCTION
1. The purpose of this Training Manual is to set out in more detail how to conduct
specific evolutions when operating RAFSA(O) HR 34.2 yachts at sea. This Manual
supplements RAFSA(O)’s Safety Management Policy and our SOPs; it forms a critical
component of the RAFSA(O) Document Set.
2. Suggested amendments should be forwarded to the Training Principal at
[email protected]
There is nothing new in sailing – a few thoughts to ponder
“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a
rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”
Leonardo da Vinci
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist
adjusts the sails."
William Arthur Ward
"The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator."
Edmund Gibbon
“The good seaman weathers the storm he cannot avoid, and avoids the storm he
cannot weather.”
Anon

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CHAPTER 1 - STORM SAIL RIGGING
1. The HR 34.2 yachts are equipped with a storm Jib, which hanks on to a ‘baby’
forestay (baby stay) rigged immediately aft of the furling genoa, and a deep reefed mainsail
– the third reef. The yacht will point higher with the storm jib than a heavily reefed genoa.
An indicative sail plan/reefing guide is in the laminated Reference Cards.
2. Storm Jib. The storm jib must remain accessible in the starboard cockpit locker.
The bag contains:
• One orange storm jib with wire Tack strop
• Two sheets bowlined to the clew
• Highfield Lever to connect and tension the baby stay
3. When not rigged, the Baby Stay is clipped onto the spreaders and tied to the
stanchion foot near the port shroud foot, with elastic cord. The following procedures are
used to prepare the storm jib for use; hoisting and dropping is as per any hanked jib:
1. Take the bagged storm jib forward
onto the foredeck and remove the bag
2. Ensure the bag is tied on and the
sail is secured
4. Unclip the baby stay from the
3. Secure the Highfield Lever midship port stanchion foot
Storm sail with sheets and Highfield Lever Baby stay secured to port midships stanchion foot

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5. Unclip the baby stay from the 6. Take the baby stay forward and connect
spreaders to High Field Lever
7. Connect Highfield Lever to fore 8. Hank on the Storm Jib ensuring all hanks
deck fitting which is stressed for the load face the same way

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9. Attach the Halyard; roll and tie 10. Prior to hoisting the storm jib
the storm sail & sheets securely ready for use
• Furl the genoa
• Continue to furl to wrap genoa sheets
around genoa
• Secure genoa sheets completely
11. Route the storm sail sheet through 12. Raise storm jib and tension halyard
The genoa travellers, through the aft turning
block to the genoa winch 13. Control sail normally using sheets
Wire tack strop

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Storm Jib raised Highfield lever & wire tack strop deck
attachment point

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CHAPTER 2 - RIGGING THE PREVENTER
1. Safety. SOPs require a preventer to be rigged when sailing with the wind abaft the
beam. An inadvertent gybe is extremely dangerous and can severely injure passengers and
crew. Inexperienced crew and helmsmen, with little wind awareness, pose the greatest risk.
The skipper is responsible for the safety of his vessel and crew. To assist rigging, both
yachts have a preventer lanyard, attached to the boom end, clipped under the boom. The
preventer line is stowed in the starboard aft cockpit locker.
2. Function. The preventer is designed to hold the boom out is the mainsail is backed
during an inadvertent gybe. It will work in light to moderate winds but should never be relied
on. In strong and very strong winds and rough seas, the preventer may not hold.
3. Rigging. The preventer is rigged as shown below:
Aft cleat OXO Spinnaker block midships Forward cleat out-to-in-to-boom

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The Preventer fully rigged
4. Method.
• Route the preventer line from the aft quarter on the windward side
• Use windward midships spinnaker block
• Use forward cleat threading the preventer out to in
• Route the free end aft on the leeward side to just aft of the shrouds
• Tie to rail do not leave loose.
• Untie preventer lanyard under boom
• Tie preventer to loop in lanyard using a round turn and 2 half hitches
• Do not use a bowline – the knot will become too tight
• Sheet out the main further than sail trim requires
• Pull the preventer tight and secure to aft windward cleat using an OXO
• Sheet in the main sail sheet to set the sail trim and tighten the preventer line
• Do not leave slack in the preventer line it must be fairly taught.
• Release the OXO and let the preventer run free if you need to heave to or tack
Preventer – routed
over starboard rail
Preventer tied to
lanyard with
round turn & 2
half hitches
Preventer lanyard

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CHAPTER 3 - REEFING
1. The yacht is equipped with a furling genoa operated from the cockpit. It is essential
that when fully furled in light to moderate wind strength, a minimum of 5 turns of the furling
line remains on the furling drum. If less than 5 turns, additional turns can be added by
removing the sheets from the genoa and turning the furling drum (and genoa) to put more
turns of furling line on. This will ensure you can furl the sail in strong winds when the furl is
much tighter. The mainsail uses a slab reefing system.
2. Genoa Reefing. To reef the Genoa:
• Ideally, reef with wind forward of the beam. If wind abaft the beam do not allow
the genoa to fly forward of the forestay, which can damage the rig
• Ease the genoa sheet until the sail flogs
• Sweat in the furling line on the port side until sufficient sail in rolled around the
forestay
• Do Not winch in the furling line you will twist the genoa foil
• Jam the furling line to prevent it running out
• Adjust the jib car position
• Sheet in on the genoa sheets to trim the sail
Genoa furling drum with furling line running aft Jamming block/jammer Sweating the furling line
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First reef in – there are no reefing marks on our HR yachts
3. Mainsail Reefing. The mainsail uses a slab reefing system. Leach reefing rings
hook over ‘rams horns’ at the gooseneck. Reefing pennants secure the clew; jammers are
located under the boom and the reefing pennant winch is located on the aft side of the mast,
below the boom. A winch handle can be stowed at the mast.
4. Method. Slab reefing the main follows the same procedure as raising and lowering
the mainsail; this is achieved by:
• Sailing into wind close hauled
• Shake out the mainsail halyard, load onto the halyard winch
• Position crew; one at the mast; one on the main halyard; one on the
mainsheet; and one helming
• Winch in the mainsail halyard slightly and release the halyard jammer
• Kicker off; ease the mainsheet to distress mainsail; topping lift on to raise boom
• Keep the main sail depowered using the main sheet
• Lower the mainsail under control using the halyard. Place the reefing cringle
over the ‘rams horn’ – any side will do.
• Raise and tension the main halyard. Do not over tension
• Pull in the corresponding reefing pennant and winch in. Stop when clew is on
boom and sail foot is tight. Reefing pennant Jammer on
• Use a reefing earring – the jammers are easily knocked off
• Ease topping lift; sheet in the main fully; kicker on; take up slack in the other
reefing pennants, tidy and secure; record in ships log

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Reefing pennants
Reefing cringle
& rams horns

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Lowering the mainsail and preparing to secure the reefing cringle to the rams horn
Reefing earring (rope sail tie) in place to secure clew if reefing pennant drops out. Use a slip knot

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CHAPTER 4 - MAN OVERBOARD TECHNIQUES
Returning to The Survivor
1. You will have been taught how to carry out the sailing drills to position the yacht to
recover a MOB, under power (preferred) and sail. MOB is a Distress situation: the aim is
to reduce separation of the yacht from the MOB and return to pick up the survivor on the
leeward side as soon as practicable, using a method that will give the very best chance of
first-time success. The RYA currently advocate the following methods:
2. Under Power. If you’ve got an engine and it works, use it.
3. Under Sail. There is an art to coaxing your boat gently into the breeze and coming to
a standstill alongside your target; it requires regular practise. This is skill you must master; a
MOB situation is EXACTLY the time when your motor will decide not to start, or you will end
up with a line wrapped around the propeller.
• Sheet in the mainsail and heave to in
order to take the way off your boat
• Throw buoyancy to the casualty and
mark with a dan buoy and MOB on GPS
• Instruct a crewmember to point at the
MOB
• Retrieve any warps from the water and
start the engine
• Furl or drop the headsail
• Make ready the throwing line
• Manoeuvre 5-6 boat lengths downwind
of the MOB; keep the MOB in sight
• Approach the MOB into the wind, so
that the mainsail is depowered
• Pick up the MOB on the leeward side,
aft of the mast.
On a close reach you can spill
and fill your mainsail to control
your speed
Distressed mainsail
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Method:
• As before, sheet in the mainsail and heave to
• Throw buoyancy to the casualty and marking with a dan buoy & on GPS
• Instruct a crewmember to check for warps
• Sail back to the survivor then turn onto a beamy/broad reach
• Sail away for about five or six boat lengths, ensuring that you do not lose sight
of the MOB. Drop/furl the headsail
• Tack, aiming the leeward side of the yacht at the MOB. Ease/release the
kicker and let out the mainsail sheets. The mainsail should flap; if not, bear off
downwind to change the angle of approach. Point the boat slightly above (windward
of) the MOB until the mainsail flaps (distressed).
• The angle of approach should be a close reach so that the sails can be
powered and depowered
• Fill and spill the mainsail and slowly approach the MOB. Pick up the MOB to
leeward, aft of the mast
Broady-Beamy Reach

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4. Alternative Approach Methods – Sail and Power. There are numerous alternative
methods of approaching the MOB; several are set out below for consideration. The method
that works on the day in the prevailing conditions is the correct one. This is a skill which
requires regular practise.
a. Sail.

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b. Power: