Hobie Optipratic User manual

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Owner’s Manual

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The Optipratic is delivered already fitted.
The foot straps are standard equipment
(except for special orders)
The Hull
A rope kit is delivered with the hull.
It includes :
The front towing rope with wooden
handle.
Back towing rope
Cunningham rope
Adjustment strap cord
The foot straps are fitted with elastic to keep
the right tension.
This elastic allows the strap to always be
held up.
The strap rope delivered in the kit is
attached to the lower pad-eye.
Start from this pad-eye, throu
g
h the strap
eyelet, return to the pad-eye and an
ultimate passage into the eyelet and hold in
place with a half knot.
The second larger elastic fixed on the lower
pad-eye holds the rudder while sailing, but
we'll see this later.
The front towing rope must be installed with
the black compression washer. Fix the
wooden handle to the front end of the rope.

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The back towing rope is placed in the 2 TOP
holes at the back of the boat and held in
place by a figure of eight knot.
This system allows the coach to attach
several boats to each other without tyin
g
knots.
A simple passage of the wooden handle into
the loop at the back of the boat in front is
enough.
The Cunningham :
This is fixed by a simple passage throu
g
h
the mast-guidance plate.
It avoids losin
g
the ri
gg
in
g
while usin
g
a
classical rig.
Make knots under and over the mast-
guidance plate to hold the Cunnin
g
ham
cord in place
Circuit :
Start at the mast- guidance plate , throu
g
h
the sail eyelet (tack point) and then back
into the aluminium cleat placed on the
mast-guidance plate.

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The Sail
The Optipratic sail has a sleeve for the mast.
Slide the mast into the sail, and then slide
the boom into the strap of the sheet.
The foot of the sail is adjusted by a rope that
attaches to the fairlead to the end of the
boom.
The fairlead goes through the sail eyelet
back into the fairlead to finish in the cleat on
the boom.
The Sprit
Place the rope as in the photo.
The sprit is captive but removable.
Starting from the sprit rope on the mast into
the fairlead (bowline or figure-eight knot),
then through the sprit fairlead, back into the
fairlead to finish in the aluminium cleat
located just below the fairlead.
Don’t forget to hold in place with a figure-
eight knot.

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II Rigging the Optipratic
Specially desi
g
ned for sailin
g
schools, it
allows easy and safe use.
The mast is installed on the boat before the
mainsheet. Put the marker towards the
front of the boat. Place the mast into the
mast foot.
Then put the rigging in the proper position,
boom to the rear. The boom is permanently
connected to the mast.
The Cunningham is passed throu
g
h the sail
tack eyelet and is fixed onto the aluminium
cleat on the mast-guidance plate.
The boom van
g
is attached to the boom by a
single clove hitch knot, then passed into the
cleat on the mast, and held in place by a
stop knot.
The mainsheet is fixed to the becket of the
pulley and installed on the small strap in the
middle of the boom.
Start from the becket of this pulley
g
oin
g
through the front pulley on the bottom of the
boat, and then up again to to the hi
g
h pulley
and down to the low pulley just behind.
Make a figure eight knot at the end of this
sheet.

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Rudder and Dagger-board
The rudder is fixed in a traditional way on
the pintals.
It is held in place by the elastic on the
transom.
Slide it over the front of the bar.
You can also slide the stick into it, if you do
not wish to use it.
Place the fine edge of the dagger-board
towards the back of the boat.
The elastic holds it in place if you wish to
navigate with the dagger-board lifted
slightly.