Hobie Optipratic Owner's Manual

Hobie Cat Europe – ZI Toulon Est, BP 250, 83078 Toulon cedex 9, France

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Owner’s Manual

Hobie Cat Europe – ZI Toulon Est, BP 250, 83078 Toulon cedex 9, France

T [phone] – F [phone] – [e-mail]

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The Optipratic is delivered already fitted.
The foot straps are standard equipment
(except for special orders)

The Hull

A rope kit is delivered with the hull.

It includes :

 The front towing rope with wooden

handle.

 Back towing rope
 Cunningham rope
 Adjustment strap cord

The foot straps are fitted with elastic to keep
the right tension.

This elastic allows the strap to always be
held up.

The strap rope delivered in the kit is
attached to the lower pad-eye.

Start from this pad-eye, through the strap
eyelet, return to the pad-eye and an
ultimate passage into the eyelet and hold in
place with a half knot.

The second larger elastic fixed on the lower
pad-eye holds the rudder while sailing, but
we'll see this later.

The front towing rope must be installed with
the black compression washer. Fix the

wooden handle to the front end of the rope.