RS Quba Quick start guide

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CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. TECHNICAL DETAILS
3. COMMISSIONING
3.1 Preparation
3.2 Unpacking
3.3 Rigging the Mast
3.4 Stepping the Mast
3.5 Rigging the Boom
3.6 The Daggerboard
3.7 The Rudder
3.8 Hoisting the Mainsail
3.9 Rigging the Jib
3.10 Completion
4. SAILING HINTS
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Launching
4.3 Leaving the Beach
4.4 Sailing Close-Hauled and Tacking
4.5 Sailing Downwind and Gybing
4.6 Reefing
4.7 Using the Oars
4.8 Using the Top Cover

5. MAINTENANCE
5.1 Boat Care
5.2 Foil Care
5.3 Spar Care
5.4 Sail Care
5.5 Fixtures & Fittings
6. WARRANTY
7. GLOSSARY
8. APPENDIX
8.1 Useful Websites & Recommended Reading
8.2 RS QUBA Life Cycle
8.5 Three Essential Knots
All terms highlighted in blue throughout the Manual can be found in the Glossary of
Terms.
Warnings, Top Tips, and Important Information are displayed in a yellow box.

1. INTRODUCTION
Congratulations on the purchase of your new RS QUBA and thank you for choosing
an RS product. We are confident that you will have many hours of great sailing and
racing in this truly excellent design.
The RS QUBA is an exciting boat to sail and offers fantastic performance. This
manual has been compiled to help you to gain the maximum enjoyment from your
RS QUBA, in a safe manner. It contains details of the craft, the equipment supplied or
fitted, its systems, and information on its safe operation and maintenance. Please
read this manual carefully and be sure that you understand its contents before using
your RS QUBA.
This manual will not instruct you in boating safety or seamanship. If this is your first
boat, or if you are changing to a type of craft that you are not familiar with, for your
own safety and comfort, please ensure that you have adequate experience before
assuming command of the craft. If you are unsure, RS, your RS dealer, or your
national sailing federation – for example, the Royal Yachting Association – will be
able to advise you of a local sailing school, or a competent instructor.
Please keep this manual in a secure place and hand it over to the new owner if
you sell the boat.
For further information, spares, and accessories, please contact:
RS Sailing
Premier Way
Abbey Park
Romsey
Hants SO51 9DQ
Tel.: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [email protected]
For details on your local RS dealer, please visit www.rssailing.com

2. RS QUBA TECHNICAL DATA
Length Overall (LOA):
3.53 m
11’5”
Beam:
1.42 m
4’ 6”
Hull Weight:
58 kg
128 lb
Sport Reefing Mainsail:
5.7 m²
60 ft²
Pro fully-battened
Mainsail:
7.1 m²
75 ft²
Jib:
1.2 m²
13 ft²

3. COMMISSIONING
3.1 Preparation
Your RS QUBA comes complete with all the components necessary to take the boat
sailing.
Whilst your RS QUBA has been carefully prepared, it is important that new owners
should check that shackles and knots are tight. This is especially important when the
boat is new, as travelling can loosen seemingly tight fittings and knots. It is important
to check such items prior to sailing regularly.
3.2 Unpacking
Having unpacked your RS QUBA, you should check that you have all of the items
listed below before throwing away any of the packaging, as there may be some small
items still wrapped.
•1 x RS RS QUBA hull
•1 x mast style as ordered
•1 x boom
•1 x Foil pack consisting
1 x rudder, rudder stock, and tiller extension
I x daggerboard
•1 x mainsail (Sport or Pro)
•1 x rope pack – consisting of:
1 x mainsheet
1 x daggerboard Retaining elastic
1 x Plastic clip for above
1 x downhaul
1 xPulley on a hook for downhaul
1 x kicking cascade
Take care when using a knife or other sharp object to cut through
packaging containing parts – you may damage the contents!

1 x Shackle for above
1 x downhaul block
1 x main halyard (tracked mast only)
1 x set sail numbers
•Optional Jib Pack – consisting of:
1 x RS RS QUBA jib
1 x jib sheet
1 x jib halyard
1 x jib tack hook
1 x Pack of cleats and fairleads

3.3 Rigging the Mast
There are currently 3 options for the mast:
Standard two piece round mast, optional one piece round mast and optional two
piece tracked mast.
To complete this section, you will need:
•The mast top section
•The mast lower section
•Alternatively: One Piece Mast
•The main halyard (tracked mast only)
•The downhaul line
•The downhaul block
To assemble the Standard Mast:
1. Join the mast by inserting the mast top section into the mast lower section.
2. Push the mast top section in until it butts up against the mast lower section.
The sail should then be sleeved onto the mast, ensuring that the eye for the jib
halyard is visible in the cut out. If you have the optional jib pack, thread the halyard
through the eye at this stage. (See section 3.9: Rigging the Jib).
If you have the Jib Pack, please refer to Section 3.9 Rigging the Jib before
stepping the mast in the boat.

To assemble the Tracked mast:
1. Join the mast by inserting the mast lower section into the mast top section.
2. Push the mast lower section in until it butts up against the mast top section.
3. Take the main halyard from the rope pack.
4. Lead the end of the main halyard through the back of the head sheave at the top
of the mast, from bottom to top.
5. Pull the main halyard through so that both ends are at the bottom of the mast, by
the gooseneck.
6. Take the end of the main halyard that is up against the mast track, and thread it
back into the sail track and out through the oblong hole in the mast, just above the
main halyard cleat.
Main Halyard
Head Sheave

7. Pull both ends of the main halyard tight, so that one half goes into the mast track.
8. Tie a figure-of-eight knot in both ends of the main halyard.
9. Once you have threaded the main halyard, it can remain in place when you
separate the two mast sections in future.
10. Take the downhaul line from the rope pack.
11. Tie a figure-of-eight knot in one end of the downhaul line.
12. Lead the other end of the downhaul line through the hole on the right-hand side
of the gooseneck collar, from the bottom to the top.
13. Take the downhaul block from the rope pack, thread the downhaul line through it,
and lead the end through the hole on the left-hand side of the gooseneck collar, from
top to bottom.
Mast Track
Main Halyard
Gooseneck Collar
Downhaul Line

14. Lead the end of the downhaul line through the hole in the downhaul cleat, from
top to bottom, and tie a figure-of-eight knot in the end.
Now the mast is ready to be put in the boat, or ‘stepped’.
3.4 Stepping the Mast
The Mast-Gate Pin
The mast-gate pin is already fitted to your RS QUBA. The pin has a Knurled nut on
the bottom to prevent it from falling out.
REMEMBER
If you are rigging the Jib Pack, you need to read Section 3.9 before stepping the
mast.
Downhaul Block
Downhaul Line
Jib Halyard Cleat
Main Halyard Cleat
Downhaul Cleat
Downhaul Line

To lock the pin screw on the knurled nut
Pin undone
Stepping the Mast
1. Remove the mast-gate pin, and ensure that the mast gate is open.
2. Lift the mast, and with the kicker attachment at 90˚ to the open mast gate, place
the base into the mast well, ensuring that the dimple in the bottom of the mast
locates on the raised section in the mast well.
3. Rock the mast forward against the foredeck making sure the lip on the collar is
under the foredeck and rotate the mast 90˚ so that the kicker attachment points
toward the back of the boat, then close the mast gate.
4. Secure the mast gate using the mast-gate pin.
Mast Well
Foredeck
Mast Gate
Mast-Gate Pin

Mast gate closed
Kicker attachment
3.5 Rigging the Boom
To rig the boom, you will need:
•The boom
•The downhaul
•The kicker cascade
•A flat-headed screwdriver
•The mainsheet
1. The outhaul line is already rigged on the boom.
2. Using a flat bladed screwdriver, undo the shackle for the top of the kicker
cascade and use it to attach the kicker cascade to the metal eye near the
front of the boom. Once attached you will not need to remove it, although it is
a good idea to occasionally check the shackle is tight.
Top Tip
If the wind is blowing, there will be a lot of pressure on the top of the mast making it wave
around. Consider finding somebody to help if you feel that you will struggle!
WARNING
When lifting the mast, make sure that there are no overhead power lines.

1. Lift the boom and push the gooseneck onto the gooseneck collar on the
mast. Rest the other end of the boom on the transom.
2. Attach the mainsheet block with the inglefield clip to the block on the
bridle at the transom.
3. Take the mainsheet from the rope pack. Lead one end of the mainsheet
through the mainsheet block on the deck of the boat. Lead the end of
the mainsheet through the block near the kicker cascade on the bottom
of the boom, from front to back.
4. Lead the end of the mainsheet through the webbing strap on the boom,
and through the block at the end of the boom.
5. Thread the end of the mainsheet through the block on the mainsheet
bridle, and back up to the block at the end of the boom.
Kicker Cascade
Metal Eye

6. Thread the end of the mainsheet through the becket on the block at the
end of the boom, and secure it using a knot-on-knot.
Please note, the mainsheet block will be supplied in the forward position: if you plan
to sail with a crew you may wish to move the block to the aft position to give the crew
more room, to do this, simply unshackle it from the forward loop and move it to the
aft loop.
It may be easier to compress the spring using a pair of small cable ties until the
shackle is done up, then cut the ties to release it.
Boom
Mainsheet
Block
Becket

If you have the sleeved sail and wish to reef it, attach the downhaul line to the eye on
the front of the sail and take it through the cleat below.
If you do not wish to reef the sail but require a more powerful downhaul, tie a figure
of eight in one end of the downhaul and take it up through the hole in the starboard
side of the boom jaws, through the block with a hook and back down through the
hole in the port side of the jaws, and then to the cleat on the port side of the mast.
The hook then goes into the eye on the sail (the tack).

Finally, attach the clew of the sail to the hook at the back end of the boom
And the lower block of the kicker to the shackle on the mast- this has a quick release
pin.
3.6 The Daggerboard
To complete this section, you will need:
•The daggerboard
•Daggerboard retaining elastic
•Daggerboard retaining clip
1) Tie a figure-of-eight knot in the end of the daggerboard elastic and thread it
through the hole in the handle.
2) Tie the other end to the plastic clip using a knot on a knot.

The Daggerboard Handle
Please note comments in section 5.2 regarding water ingress in foils.
3.7 The Rudder
To complete this section, you will require:
•The rudder
•The rudder stock
•The Tiller
•The Tiller retaining screw
•The Tiller extension
1) Remove the rudder assembly from the foil pack and locate the components- the
self-tapping screw is in a small bag, in with the tiller arm.
2) Slide the Tiller into the stock and fix it with the self-tapping screw.
The Rudder Fitted in the Stock
Rudder Stock
Downhaul

Tie the rudder downhaul block onto the rope from the Rudder blade.
4) Attach the Tiller extension to the Tiller.
Please note comments in section 5.2 regarding water ingress in foils.

3.8 Hoisting the Mainsail- Sleeved mast only
To complete this section, you will need:
•The mainsail (either the RS QUBA Sport reefing mainsail, or the RS QUBA Pro
battened mainsail)
1. Unroll the mainsail.
2. Take the end of the main halyard that is free from the mast track, and tie it to
the head of the mainsail using a knot on knot.
3. Put the top of the mainsail into the opening at the bottom of the mast track,
just above the gooseneck mast collar.
4. Holding the mainsail in line with the mast, pull on the end of the main halyard
that comes out of the mast.
5. Pull the mainsail up to the top of the mast. To make hoisting the mainsail
easier, keep it in line with the mast, especially when passing the batten
pockets.
6. When the mainsail is at the top of the mast, secure the main halyard in the
main halyard cleat on the mast.
7. Take the hook on the sail slider at the other end of the boom and, using the
webbing strap in the clew of the mainsail to pull the sail into position, attach
the hook of the sail slider onto the metal eyelet in the clew of the sail.
Mainsail
Main Halyard
Main Halyard
Cleat