Zodiac MilPro Futura Commando FC 420, Руководство пользователя

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WASH – CLEAN – DEFLATE AND BOAT STORAGE
WASH AND DRY THE BOAT BEFORE STORING IT - or - DEFLATING IT FOR STORAGE:
Remove all equipment & rinse the boat with fresh water (do not get water inside of the foot pump)
Wash the boat with mild soap & water. Remove sand and various debris from under the boat.
Clean the boat between the bottom and the lower buoyancy tubes, and under the roll-up floor.
If removable, remove keel periodically (every 3 to 6 months) flush dirt and brush both sides of the
Velcro,
If removable, remove periodically (every 3 to 6 months) lower buoyancy tubes to flush out grit,
sand and pebbles.
Stand the boat upright on its cones against a wall to let water run out trough self bailers.
Deflate the lower buoyancy tubes and rinse inside the sheathes with abundant high pressure
water,
Check and clean all metallic parts.
Wipe the boat dry before deflating it, and rolling the boat up for storage.
FOLD THE BOAT:
Turn all I/C valves to the inflation position (“red area”) @ 12 o’clock and unscrew all I/C valve caps
and inserts, the keel valve cap and insert, and the lower buoyancy tube butterfly wing clamps.
Let the boat deflate on its own,
Install a new charged inflation cylinder, do not strap it in yet, bottle tap to Starboard, plug both high
pressure hoses into their diffuser fittings, check your I/C valves are opened at 12 o’clock with
lower buoyancy tubes clamps in off position, and overpressure valve caps removed.
When boat is deflated, replace all valve caps on I/C valves tightly, verify open wing nuts on lower
buoyancy tubes are off and O/P valve caps are also off.
Tighten the bottle straps to immobilize the inflation bottle,
Pull the buoyancy tubes inward (Fig. 1), place the cones on the transom,
Roll up the boat around it’s transom from the transom to the bow.
If air remains in the tubes, unroll the boat, let the air out & start again to role the boat up.
You can, open one of the bow I/C valves (
which are in their inflation position)
remove valve cap and
insert, couple a shop-vac. to the valve and vacuum the boat to reduce its diameter in volume.
Once achieved the required vacuum
(2 minutes is enough)
turn I/C valve to 6 o’clock, reposition the
valves cap and insert on the I/C valve tightly, and turn the I/C flywheel back to 12 o’clock, so as to
guarantee a good air circulation when the SCUBA bottle is activated for boat automatic inflation.
CAUTION:
During automatic inflation, always stand-by ready to turn the inflation bottle tap off, in case
of a malfunction. - This is a standard operating procedure –
Fig. 1 Fig. 2
Buoyancy Bottom
Deflated buoyancy tubes & pull them
inward
Fig. 3