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How to Rig a Laser Sailboat

This is a step by step instruction on how to rig the original laser (not the radial, laser 2 etc.)

1. Get all your parts together. You should have the boat itself (the hull), the dagger board, the rudder as well as tiller, your mainsheet, both mast pieces, boom, boom vang as well as sail in one place.
2. Put together both the pieces of your mast. The bottom of the top half just slides into the top of the bottom half. There are no locks, or anything, it should just fit snugly.
3. Slide your sail over the mast. There will be a pocket on the inside of the sail to slide over the mast.
4. This is the hardest part of the entire rigging process, so be careful, no-one likes a broken mast. You st as well as up your mast, make sure its right next to the bow of the laser, as well as pick it straight up off the ground, as well as put it into the mast step (the hole at the front of your laser).
5. The sail should now be flapping in the wind. Get your boom, as well as put its front end into the gooseneck (the little pin sticking out of your mast). Hold it in there, as it will fall off without any other support.
6. While still holding the boom into the gooseneck, walk around to the flapping end of the sail. Grab the outhaul (the line on the very end of the sail), as well as put it through the eye at the end of the boom. Now run the line down the boom, as well as cleat it off. If you have cleated off the outhaul properly, the boom should now stay up on its own.
7. Now you have you attach the boom vang. This piece holds the boom down while your sailing. Supposing it is already rigged itself, you only have to attach it to the bottom of the mast, the slide it into the little metal clip on the boom. Now pull down on the hanging line, as well as then pull straight up to cleat it.
8. Now for the mainsheet. Take one end of it, go to the end of the boom, as well as tie it around the eye on the bottom of the pulley there. Do not put it through the pulley itself; you're going to need it in a moment. Now that it's tied off, find the other end of your line, as well as run it through the traveler on the stern of the boat. Then run it back up, through the pulley on the end up the boom, across the bottom of the boom, through that metal loop, through the next pulley, as well as then down through the main block. Make sure that your main block clicks when you pull the mainsheet through it. If it doesn't, you have to run the mainsheet through the other side of the mainblock.
9. Just before you put the laser in the water, attach the rudder as well as tiller. Slide the rudder pins into the eyes on the backside of the laser, as well as make sure that the clip is holding it down. Test it by pulling up on the rudder. Then put on the tiller by sliding it into the space on the top of the rudder. Once it's in, insert the pin to hold it there, as well as launch.
10. The last thing you need to do, just before you start sailing, is tie down the rudder. There is a tiny string, found anywhere around the rudder as well as tiller, that you have to pull on to bring down the rudder. Once it's down, tie off the string on the cleat that is on the side of your tiller, as well as you're set to sail!

• The boat itself (the hull)
• the dagger board
• the rudder and tiller
• your mainsheet
• both mast pieces
• boom
• boom vang
• sail

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Added: Thu Feb 02 2006

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