Difficulty: Moderately Challenging
Instructions
Things You'll Need:
- A sail boat
- Headsail with sheets, ropes and lines
-
Step 1
Remove your headsail from its bag.
-
Step 2
Spread out the headsail on the foredeck of your sailboat.
-
Step 3
Locate the 3 corners of your sail--head (top), tack (bottom inside) and clew (bottom outside).
-
Step 4
Attach the tack to the base of the mast with the forestay.
-
Step 5
Connect the hanks starting at the tack.
-
Step 6
Release the halyard from its cleat.
-
Step 7
Attach the halyard to the headboard at the head of the headsail.
-
Step 8
Take the slack out of the halyard and secure it into a cleat.
-
Step 9
Tie the sheet to the clew with bowlines.
-
Step 10
Secure the loose sail cloth to the bow pulpit or secure it to the deck with cleats and lazy sheets.
-
Step 11
Coil your lazy sheets flat and lay them in the cockpit or hang them on a cleat.
-
Step 12
You are now ready to raise the headsail.
