If there is a Rollover image, move your mouse over the picture to reveal it. When a Rollover image is present we will indicate with Rollover.

Looking aft from the mast, most of what you now see we will cover in greater detail later. A, this is a pocket to hold a winch handle while you are at the mast. The main sail halyard and the reefing lines are all located at the mast. Remember not to leave the winch handle in the pocket while sailing as the jib sheets will whip it out and toss it overboard. B, the outboard lives on the pad at the back of the push pit.

The anchor lives in the bow. It is a large plough type anchor and because we use moorings quite a lot it gets in the way so stays in the locker for most of the time. Rollover There is 17.5 meters of chain and 25 meters of warp. the warp is fixed to a D bracket in the locker to prevent you accidentally loosing the whole lot over the side, but the D bracket is not intended to hold the weight of the boat. The most use the anchor gets is for lunch stops and short stays and the average depth you will be looking to drop the hook in will be about 4mtrs. I normally toss the whole lot of chain in leaving the first 2mtrs of warp running over the bow roller. That's fine for a couple of hours layover.

Because this is a self draining locker we normally keep the 2stroke petrol can in here. It is a red can. (Not shown)

Multinet has a simple roller reefing headsail. Not much to say about it really it has never been a cause for problems.

If for any reason you needed to remove the headsail the halyard for it runs down the forestay and is tied off with chord. In this picture the halyard is furled inside the sail.

It is tied off with chord for the same reason many things are tied on a yacht, so that in an emergency it can be cut for speed.

On the port side lives a spare forestay. Roll your mouse over the picture for a close up view. You would use the spare forestay to rig the storm jib. If you need the storm jib you have stuffed up on your weather passage planning.

There is a D bracket just aft of the anchor locker. The fore stay is moved from its home on the port side and connected to the D bracket. 1. is a pin that you remove to free the halyard. 2. is a ring that slides up the halyard connector allowing the handle 3 to open and release the halyard. I's a lot simpler than it looks. You connect it in reverse order. Pin in handle closed. ring over handle.

If you had any problems with the roller reefing, the spare forestay can be rigged and a spare hank on jib (which lives in the sail locker in the fore peak) rigged. The hank on jib would be hauled up using one of the spinnaker halyards.

Back now to the foot of the mast. B are the sockets for the radio cables, lights, radar etc. If something isn't working this is the place to look first. Sometimes these sockets can get knocked and dislodged, especially when handling the dingy on deck. A you can see the boat hooks. this is a good place for them to live but here you notice the hook is forward. It will catch the jib sheet 9 times out of 10. Bummer ! It is far better to turn them around with the hook to the stern by the life raft cradle C

Looking up the mast you will notice mast steps. They are very useful but everything has its price. They love to catch any halyards that are left loose to flop around.

Roll your mouse over the picture for a close-up of the mast step B.

Remember this love of snagging halyards for the next section on raising the main sail.

The step is opened by pushing it up and out.

This is the business part of the mast. M is the green main halyard. It is spliced to a wire halyard that you can see hooked around the mast winch A. Because we mainly store the halyard around the winch, when we remove it to raise the main it means there is a lot of slack in the halyard. Remember those halyard hungry mast steps. You need to hold the wire halyard away from the mast until the slack is taken up. Roll the mouse over the picture to see what we mean.

R are the reefing lines red,green, and gray. There are locking cleats under the sail there. Even though the locking cleat is closed it is a good idea to lock the reefing line off on a cleat on the mast. we will cover reefing later.

This section to follow soon.

There are only two things to know about the main sail. You know the first, that is hold the wire halyard away from the mast when raising the main sail.

The second is about dropping the main sail. The cleat on the main that is there to help hold the main halyard while reefing the main can cause problems when dropping the main. The main sail never sticks when you drop it. It will come down very easily, however if it does jam it is no good pulling and pulling on it. What will have happened is the locking cleat for reefing will have caught the main halyard. Simply reach up above your head and open the cleat. Roll your mouse over the picture to see what we mean.

When folded away the main sail is held with bungy toggles. Simply unfasten the toggles and let them dangle free under the boom. Roll your mouse over the picture to see what we mean.

It is best to leave the bungy ties dangling rather than take them off, as many times they have shot back to the cockpit and hit crew, when trying to put them back or take them off.

Before we say goodbye to the mast lets have a look at the mast head.

D is the deck light.
C is the white steaming light. Lit only when under power.
R Radar scanner. If radar is fitted and conditions require it, it is an offence not to use it.
B our old friend the mast steps, look how they have grabbed the slack spinnaker halyards.
A The crows foot indicates the point of sail and apparent wind.

The cluster of wind instruments sticking out of the front of the mast are redundant. Very fancy, very expensive and and totally useless.

There is a lot to see here so we may repeat this view in the next few frames.

C The tiller. You can see there is a tiller extension to make things easier when sitting to the side. The tiller will lift up allowing the table to be fitted outside if the weather is nice. The table leg fits into the socket G. If the tiller becomes a little slack in that it drops down making it uncomfortable to hold up tighten the nuts clamping it to the stock near F.

You will notice that the tiller is tied amidships C this is because when on a mooring in the straits and around Anglesey the tides can damage the rudder. Look after the rudder when staying any length of time on a mooring or anchor. If the rudder fails I will be safe in my office. Where will you be ?

E is the gas locker. We will look at it in more detail later.
A is the rev counter. We will look at it in more detail later.
F is the external speaker for the radio and to the right the engine hours clock.
B is the bracket where the outboard lives. Its on the dingy at the back of the yacht in this shot. Note the dingy is the tender for getting on board. The yachts own dingy is in the large deck locker D. We will look at it in more detail later.
H Horse shoes there are two one attached to the Danbuoy on the right and one on the left attached to the yacht. We will look at them in more detail later. You will notice just to the left of E a dark circle. This is a socket to hold the tiller pilot. We will look at it in more detail later.
The main sheet just below D I normally throw inside the cabin to keep things tidy.

You can roll over this image to get a close-up of the gas locker.

A is the gas regulator with the on/off valve. This is the only point for turning off the gas. No valves inside the yacht. S on the close-up is a sponge that lives in the gas locker and helps stop the bottles rattling around.
F is a bracket for the flag.
B rev counter.
C The socket for tiller pilot bracket.
E Cockpit drains there are four in all.
D pocket for the winch handle.

Safety equipment in the cockpit.

The horse shoe buoy B on the left is the one attached to the yacht with 20 mts of floating line. use this if Jonah is close enough to get him back on board.
C is attached to the Danbuoy and goes in with the Danbuoy if you have to leave Jonah. The danbuoy has a clip on the light that is attached to the backstay with a chord. This is to pull the clip off the light. If you need it and you have time pull it off manually. rollover for close-up.

Close-up image. C is the line fixed to the backstay.
A is the light with the clip attached.
B is the danbuoy flag with the pull chord wrapped around it to keep it furled.

Before we leave the deck we will look briefly at some elements that will be covered in greater detail in other sections.
R rev counter. We have tried to make everything on Multinet as intuitive and simple as possible. You will see the colour around the rev counter. The green area is obvious. The orange area is OK for short bursts if you just need that turn of speed. Go into the red and you are wasting your time, fuel, and thrashing the engine. Multinet has a huge engine and can dig Multinet's stern deep into the water slowing her down and wasting fuel. Again when you knaker the engine I'll be safe in my office. Where will you be?
Es staying with the engine for a while Es is the pull stop for the engine. We will look at it in more detail later.
A is the socket for the auto-pilot electrics.
You can see the nuts to tighten the tiller if necessary just in front of sp which is the radio speaker.