Safety Equipment - grabner Happy Cat Ultralight Handbuch

Safety equipMeNt

► Check public regulations applicable by
law in the region of your operation.
► Emergency equipment to be carried by
law.
► Boat documentation and certificates of
proficiency.
► A life jacket for each person
► Suitable weather-gear, clothing for poor
and good weather.
► Air-pump, paddle, repair set and tools.
► One boat- towing line
► Spare ropes, lines, straps, shackles, and
tape for emergency repairs.
► Knife and lighter
► First aid kit
Assembly video:
www.happy-cat.at / INFOS / VIDEOS
Owner´s manual download:
www.happy-cat.at / INFOS / INSTRUC-
TIONS
You may now get afloat sailing. May you
enjoy sailing your HAPPY CAT, and always
safely get to your destination.
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Sailors have their own form of expression.
For better understanding, we quote the most
important definitions.
► Belay – to fasten a line
► Bow – the forward end of a boat
► Clew - the rear bottom corner of a sail
► Foot of a sail – The lower edge of a sail
► Forestay - the piece of standing rigging,
forward of the mast, which keeps it from
falling backwards
► Gennaker – a large light cloth, asymetri-
cally and triangular shaped foresail
► Halyard – the rope by which to pull up
a sail
► Hoist – to raise the sail up the mast.
► Jib – a small foresail
► Lanyard – a short thin piece of line
► Leach – the rear edge of a sail
► Lee - the downwind side, - (opposite the
windward side)
► Luff – the forward edge of a sail
► Mainsheet guide – the transom fitted
triangular arranged line allowing the
mainsheet block setting to be set at posi-
tions (instead traveller) to suit.
► Mast-head – the top of the mast
► Port – the boats left side, viewed in di-
rection from behind
► Rig – the gear above boat deck level,
i.e. mast, stays, shrouds (referred to as
standing rigging, whereas detachables,
halyards, lines etc.are classed as running
rigging)
► Sheet - the rope by which to control sails
► Shroud - the piece of standing rigging
holding the mast up from side to side
► Starboard - the right side of a boat, vie-
wed from behind
► Stern – the rear end of a boat
► Tack - the forward bottom corner of a
sail