Nacra 17 Assembly Manual

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    Assembly manual dear customer, welcome to the nacra family. We wish to thank you that you choose for nacra sailing. It’s our constant endeavour to provide you with products that offer excellent performance throughout their ownerships period. Which is why, in addition to producing great catama- rans,...

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    Introduction welcome to the nacra family! First we want to thank you for choosing one of our 4 high performance catamarans. It’s our constant endeavor to empower sailiors with excellent catamarans that offer excellent performance throughout their ownership period. Which is why, in addition to produc...

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    Table of content 0. Tools ........................................................................................................................ 7 1. Platform assembly ................................................................................................. 8 1.1 hull assembly ...............

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    5. Setting the sails .................................................................................................... 32 5.1 spinnaker ....................................................................................................... 32 5.2 raising the jib .....................................

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 0. Tools 1. Torque wrench socket 1/2 socket 5/16 hex 4. Wrench 17 mm 3. Wrench 9/16 5. Wrench 22 mm 6. Allen tool 3mm 7. Flat screwdriver 8. Philips screwdriver 2. Wrench 7/16 2x 9. Long nose plier 10. Pump plier 11. “loose” tension gauge: fixed 12 grease: watertig...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 1. Platform assembly 1. Place the starboard and port hull next to each other and make sure that the hulls are facing the same way 2. Open the crossbar kit and grease the eight beambolt inserts on the hulls. Use a big wheel trolley and sterns to level the hulls . 3....

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 grease the pre-drilled holes next to the daggerboardcase. Screw the harken cam cleat on the hulls using the harken screws. Make sure the nylock nut locks the bolt, but the staymaster must be able to pivot. As shown in the picture. Mount the staymasters onto the hul...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 3. Loop the rear lacing line through the tie rod as shown in the picture. Start at the port side of the trampoline! 6. Tie the rear lacing line with half hitch knot 7. Tie the side lace line to the loop closest to the front crossbar. Loop the lacing line making sur...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 tie the footstraps using the hiking strap ties. Use the strapeye on the rear crossbar to tie the footstrap in the middle. 1.4 trapeze shockcord 1. Make a loop in the trapeze shockcord. 2. Use the ring adjusted in the middle of the crossbar under the trampoline to g...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 1.6 mast rotation take the mast rotation line and attach one end to the staymaster 2. Go through the harken cleat and under the side lacing line. 3. Use the grommet located in the middle of the trampoline. Put the remaining line in the pocket. 1.7 spinnakerhalyard ...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 1.9 spin tack system 1. Mount the tack-releaseline. Tie a figure 8 knot on the port side underneath the trampoline. Attach the ring 4x 25 at the other end on the starboard side under- neath the trampoline. 2. Feed one end of the tackline through the block located u...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 2. Mast assembly 2.1 diamond wires it is preferable to place the mast on supports while building the mast. 1. Get the brass fitting from the rigbox kit dia- mond adjuster and the diamond wires. 2. Lead the diamond wire through the slots in the mast. Grease the thre...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 2.2 spreaders 3. Assemble the two spreader bars using the clevis pins 3/16 x 5/8. Now mount the spreaders on the mast with the spreadertip facing forward. The splitrings must face the bottom of this mast! 4. Take the spreader tip cover and a monel- wire piece. Wind...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 2.3 diamond tension 1. Put tension on the diamond wires by tightening the mast bolt with an wrench size 17mm. Use the “loose” tension gauge to measure the tension on the diamonds. Set the tension on 38 (280 kg/280 lbs) 2. After putting tension on the mast check if ...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 2.5 spinaker halyard 1. Take the spin bale line and a carbo 29 mm block. Lead one end of the spin bale line through the pre drilled holes in the mast and tie a figure 8 knot. Lead the other end of the spin bale line through the middle of the block before mounting i...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 3. Tie a figure 8 knot at the bottom of the mast 4. Tie the other end of the main halyard line with a figure 8 knot to the eyelet on the main halyard ring. Tie everything temporally to the mast. 1. Take the shackle 8mm 5/16, 2 nylon washers, the shrouds and foresta...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 2.8 jibhalyard 1. Take the jibhalyard and go through the eye of the adjusted forestay. Top 2. Both ends go through the ring at the forestay check if the ring is located at the mastside. 3. Adjust one end with a bowline at the eyelet of the s-hook. The other end is ...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 2.9 cunningham system 1. Take the 1:16 cunningham kit and tie the d12 5mm line to the 16 mm double blocks. 2. Loop the cunninghamline through the blocks as shown on the drawing..

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 3. Rudders 1. Assemble the upper and lower casting on the rudderblade. Use a flat screwdriver 2. Use the self locking slot for the nylock nut at the port side of the castings! 3. Put the boat on high support or a trailer to allign the rudders. High enough to lock d...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 10 1. Mount the bridle wires, stay adjuster and compression pole on the bridle connecti- on fitting. Use the clevis pins 1/2 x 1/4 2. Adjust the ring 3x20 ss under the bridle on each side as shown in the picture. 3. Place the mast with care on the trampoline with t...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 4.2 raising the mast 1. Place the mastbase on the mastball. 2. 1 holds the mast up with one spreader arm facing downwards, so the mastfoot doesn’t hit the crossbar! 2 mount the mast pin and splitrings in the mastfoot. 3. Check if all wires are in between the hulls ...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 6. 1 holds the mast forward pulling on the trapeze 2 grab the forestay 7. 2 attach the forestay to the shroud adjuster. Warning! Caution: check for overhead wires and be sure the area behind the boat is clear of people! A mast which comes in contact with electrical...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 4.3 lowering the mast before lowering the mast the boat should be steady on level ground. If the surface is not level, point the bows downhill. If the boat is on a trailer be sure it is tied down and the trailer tongue is secure to the hitch! Warning! Caution: chec...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 4.4 snufferbag 1. Take the spipole, snuffer ring and snufferbag and a hex ………..Mm. 2. Unscrew the hexscrew out of the spi- pole 3. Slide the snufferbag into the slot of the snuffer ring 4. Screw the snufferring handtight on the spi- pole,attach the snufferbag on th...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 4.5 spipole 1. Slide the spipole over the spipole pin on the front crossbar. Make sure the jibsheet is on top of the spipole 2. Attach the spipole on the spipole outhol- der 3. Push the spipole gently down in order to attach the front spipole bridle located on the ...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 4.6 jibsheet 1 2 take the jibsheet small, one carbo 29mm block and a shackle d 5mm. Tie one end onto the middle of the 29mm block and the feed the jib- sheet through the the first sheave of the double block located on the traveller of the selftacking track. Feed th...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 4.7 tackline—cunningham—boom pull the tackline forward and feed the the tackline through the 29mmblock on the front of the spipole. Tie a figure-8 knot in the line. Tie both ends of the cunninghamline to the shock- cord coming, wich is accessable by pulling the mou...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 4.9 spinhalyard 1 2 3 1. Feed the spinakerhalyard through the trampoline 29mm block. Go underneath the cunningham line. 2. Go underneath the v-bar and through the retrieval 29mm block. 3. Use the port big grommet to go underneath the trampoline 4.10 spinsheet 1. Ti...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 2 1 3 8 4.11 mainsheet 1:10

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 4. Follow the foot of the sail back to the clew. Here you can attach both ends of the sheet the spinsheet. Make sure the sheets are in front of the forestay 1. Attach the tack of the spinaker to the tackline 2. Follow the leading edge of the sail and tie the spiake...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 5.2 raising the jib lift pull 2. Raise the jib until the s-hook is pulled through the ring. 3. Gently pull the jib down to lock the s-hook in the ring. 1. Hook the jib on the s-hook. Close the zipper while raising , with the jibhalyard zipped in with the jibhalyard...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 5.4 battens 1. Pull the two batten tension lines through the small hole in the batten from bottom to top. Make sure each line stays on his own side. 2. Go through the grommet in the battenpocket from outside in. 3. Push the batten forward for tension, tie the overh...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 5.5 raising the mainsail 1. Roll the mainsail from the bottom to top. 3. Guide the mainsail into the slot of the mast 4. Lift the mailsail with the mainhalyard 5. Lift the mainsail until you reach the masthook. 6. Gently pull down to lock the mainhalyard ring in th...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 1 lift 2 twist 60˚ 3 pull 5.6 lowering the mainsail 1. Pull on the mainhalyard to raise the mainsail. 2. Twist the mast 60˚ while still having tension on the mainhalyard. 3. Pull the mainsail down. 4. Gently lower the mainsail and roll the the mainsail starting at ...

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    6.1 arrival of parts description reference quantity hull port 12058p 12059p 12048-2p 12051p 1 hull strbd 12059s 12059s 12048-2s 12051s 1 spipole complete w/o ring: in hullbox 31573 31622 30994 31145 1 mast 31620 30169 31185 1 hardwarebox 40006 40007 40004 40005 1 front crossbar complete 31584 31607 ...

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    Nr. Description reference quantity 1 kit crossbar 40120 40120 40120 40120 1 2 kit misc 40129 40130 40122 40122 1 3 kit spreader attachment 40124 40124 40124 40124 1 4 kit diamond adjuster small 40126 40126 40126 40126 1 5 cunningham system 1:16 31731 31731 31731 31731 1 6 riggingset 40508 40505 4050...

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    Rigbox kit spreader attachment 40124 nr discription reference quantity 1 spreader bar screw fine 30337 2 2 clevis pin 3/16 x 5/8 wl 31624 6 3 clevis pin 1/4 x 1/2 wl 30524 2 4 split ring 30553 8 5 spreader tip cover 30322 2 6 monel wire piece 31462 3 cunningham system 1:16 31731 nr discription refer...

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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 nr discription reference quantity 1 daggerboard holder wide (spare) 31590 2 2 screw 4.2x25mm (spare) 31463 4 3 staymaster 1/8” 30372 2 4 clevis pin 1/4 x 5/8 wl (staymaster) 31077 2 5 clevis pin 1/4 x 1/2 wl (bridle) 30524 6 6 clev...

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 nr. Description reference quantity forestay 31728-2 31613 30218-2 31147-2 1 shroud 31581-2 31614 30696-2 31146-2 2 trapeze wire double 31582 30222 30222 31151 2 diamond wire 31578 30223 30223 31154 2 bridle wire 31577 31617 30220 31148 2 1 2 3 4 5 6.5 riggingset.

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    Nacra empowering sailors sins 1975 option adjustable trapeze nr. Discription reference quantity 1 shackle d 5mm hex 31707 4 2 clam cleat trapeze cl253 30923 4 3 trapeze block black 30692 4 4 trapeze ring race 30681 4 5 trapeze stop 30938 4 6 line package adjustable trapeze 31713 1 option can’t miss ...