1. Crank up the keel carefully as described earlier in the manual.
2. Submerge the trailer (with the tongue extended) until boat can be floated onto the trailer and the bow secured into the rubber bow chock or V-shaped wedge.
3. Connect the trailer winch line and hook to help guide the boat.
4. Never stand with your face near the winch just in case the winch line should break due to some undetected chaffing. It could hit you in the face and be serious.
5. Don’t try to winch the boat up onto the trailer; float it on.
6. Once on land, you can put away sails by folding and then un-step the mast. This is done in the reverse of the stepping procedure. One person resists, pulling on a line attached to the forestay, while standing on the ground directly in front of the boat’s bow. The other person slowly lowers the mast backwards.
7. You need only release forestay and forward lower shrouds to lower the mast. (Do not
disconnect the main upper shrouds.)
8. Do not allow mast to lower so far that it pries up on the deck tabernacle fitting where the mast is stepped or it may break off the prongs due to the unnatural forces working upon it.
9. Secure the mast for travel as before.
10. Properly secure the fixed or retractable-keel as described earlier in this manual; that is, be sure it is properly seated and in the case of the retractable-keel, that the locking bolt is tightened down.