HQ Obsession Setup

Don't worry about the bridle being a bit tangled at this point - it's not as bad as it looks. Honest.
Assemble the wing tips by inserting the thin wing spars into the ferrules.

Make sure that they are pushed in as far as they can go. You need to check that the bridle isn't caught anywhere it shouldn't be.
Insert the top spreader on both sides of the leading edge - it's held in place when put away by the rubber 'O' ring - so the spar can rotate through 90 degrees without any problem.

Insert the bottom spreaders into the 'T' piece down the spine of the kite. Again make sure these are fully pushed in. Whilst doing this stage you need to make sure that the bridle isn't wrapped around any of the spars.
Inset the stand-offs - the outer ones (the ones closest to the leading edge) bend a lot, the inner ones don't. Make sure that the little rubber connectors haven't moved on the spreader spars - the distances need to be identical on the left & right sides of the kite & and the stand-offs should be at right angles to the spreaders.

Finally attach the trick line to the wing tips - this also helps with keeping the sail tensioned.

Note that the line through the trailing edge of the kite (the leach line) also connects here. The trick line is attached to a loop of bridle line with two knots in - the loop end hooks into the notch at the end of the wing spar, passes through a little tab on the sail, then passes back through the notch like this:

I found that this was not clearly explained in the Obsession manual & took a bit of trail an error to get it right.

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