Re: [Paddlewise] K-Light back from Baja

From: Rene Milo <rmilo_at_ibm.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:02:10 -0500
Karen H. wrote:

> ...   what with lubricating all the connections, wiping off the sand
> sticking to the lubricant,

Lubricating the connections only needs to be done once in a while, and I
would do that at home in the living room watching tv -- not on the sand.

>                               struggling to insert the skin into the
> coaming groove (it just was not going to fit with the boat assembled
> improperly), 

I forget if this is mentioned in the video (it is NOT in the video for
the K1) but fitting the skin into the pointy end of the coaming first is
a must as far as I am concerned.  Once that is done, stretching the skin
to get it started at the blunt end is much easier.

I definitely remember strugling the first several times I put the boat
together, but once I "got it", it took no strength at all except for the
step of matching up the tube ends and getting the slider pushed over the
join.

Milo
Poughkeepsie, NY
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