Purpose: These notes are a rough guide to set up a new boat for the first time, or to set up again if you have forgotten your "tuned" settings! Thanks to Mark Giles as the source of these notes. (Please refer to the Setting up from Scratch section for tuning the settings.)

Mast Step: Bolts in position as delivered.

Shroud Plate: 5 holes down from the top.

Spreader Bracket: Outboard end -- use forward hole. Inboard end -- use forward holes on bracket and spreader.

Lower Shrouds: Tension the forestay and adjust lower shroud plates to give approximately 2cms deflection at the centre of the shroud from the nominal straight line position.

Kicking Strap: Take off point on boom may have to be adjusted fore or aft by about 1 cm.

Forestay: Important -- use moderate tension for sailing and release tension, so that rigging is slack when boat is left ashore.

Sailing: In fresh conditions, first tighten the clew outhaul, then pull on kicker and finally tighten the Cunningham. With everything moderately tight the lower shrouds should just become taut. The foot of the sail should not become curled. Curled = too much clew outhaul tension.