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24. Reach in through the zipper and turn the
handwheel clockwise, and continue to turn until
the skin is tight lengthwise. You may need to pick
up the stern of the boat and give it a few shakes
before tightening a bit more. You do not have to
use up all of the threaded rod.
The handwheel will turn more easily after a few
uses, or you can try giving it a light coating of
silicone spray.
The more tension applied to the skin with the
handwheel, the fewer wrinkles there will be in the
skin and the stiffer the finished boat.
25. Once you have tensioned the skin sufficiently, pull out the telescopic gunwale extenders in the end of
the gunwale longerons. As in step #5, engage them to the butterfly brackets on the stern end of the frame.
Now zip up the rear deck, making sure the zipper is centered along the rear deck strut.
26. Now at the cockpit, locate the Velcro flaps
sewn around the inside of the cockpit fabric. Pull
these flaps over and around the cockpit frame,
pressing the Velcro surfaces together. Note that if
you want to add more tension to the skin at this
point,
you must first loosen the Velcro flaps and tuck
them
under the cockpit frame. Leave the two Velcro
flaps at
the rear of the cockpit loose until you have
finished the coaming assembly.
27. Unzip the rear deck zipper about 1 foot (see photo at left). Within the cockpit coaming, you will find a
black plastic tube that has a section of smaller aluminum tube in it. With the zipper open slightly, insert
the aluminum tube into the open end of black tubing to complete the circle. Now zip up the rear deck all
the way and secure the two Velcro flaps.
28. Locate the seat frame. With it folded in the
seating position (90 degrees), you will see three
black crescent–shaped clips facing down.
Insert the back of the seat frame into the cockpit
first so that you can get the silver-colored bar at
the top of the seat back UNDER the cockpit frame
(see photo at left). Now engage the clip attached to
the bottom of the seat back frame to the bottom
keel.
Move the seat bottom toward the stern of the boat,
which will raise the rear of the cockpit coaming as
you go. When it is back far enough to match the
two remaining clips with crossframe #2, the seat
can be snapped down in front.
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