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 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Mar 31 1999 - 15:03:03 PST
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