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
I
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1
Storm Sail Rigging
1 - 1
2
Rigging the Preventer
2 - 1
3
Reefing
3 - 1
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
4 - 1
4 - 1
4 - 1
4 - 6
4 - 6
4 - 8
4 - 9
4 - 9
4 - 11
5
Adjusting Backstay Tension
5 - 1
6
Poling Out the Headsail
6 - 1
7
Spinnaker Hoisting, Flying and Dropping
7 - 1
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
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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