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• Get your parts out of the bag and display them on a flat and clean surface. Your Narak Cross kit is composed of : 1- skin. 2- stern part. 3- bow part. 4- rear crossribs (blue marks). 5- front crossribs (red marks).
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• Start by assembling all the tubes • Find the keel tube (without ends) • Align all the red marks on the other tubes. • This way at the other end you identify two long tubes (upper tubes) and two short ones (lower tubes)
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Take the bow part and slide it into the keel tube (red marks) • Clip crossribs n° 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on the keel tube. Red marks go the front, blue marks to the rear. All marks below on starboard. Don’t put in place crossrib n°1.
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• After fixing the stern part to the keel tube, take the two longer tubes and put them on the top nipples. (slide the blue collars). • Clip the crossrib n°6 with the top tubes (below) and do the same for crossribs n°5, 4, 3 and 2.
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• Connect the tubes to the bow part. • You can now put in place crossrib n°1...
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• Start again from the stern and clip the two lower tubes to the crossribs, up to the bow. • Put the top tubes in place, front and rear. The frame assembly is finished. • Veillez à ce que le trou de l’embout soit aligné : en fin de montage une vis devra passer à...
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FOOTREST TUNING When assembling for the first time your kayak, you have to adjust the footrests, connected to the seats. The footrests will be clipped to the Put it in place, approx 1 meter in front keel tube. of the seat. Inflate the seat and put it in the kayak.
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Do the same at the front with the nar- Connect the footrest to the seat with row straps. the large straps. Seat into the kayak and adjust the straps to the legth of your legs.
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ASSEMBLY FOLLOWING • Slide the frame into the skin. • Be careful that the frame has to be • Push the frame in the skin to the perfectly centered in the skin : the max, so that the eyelet is almost over top tube has to be aligned with the the top tube hole.
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• At the rear, push the stern towards the ground to get the frame in the skin. The «shark tooth» (red arrow) has to be released off the stern part (pull the pin). • Attach the lateral straps below the cockpit rim. the two straps have to go over the top tube (red arrow), then one of them go around the lower tube, thenthey are attached together.
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• Tie the last remaining strap (below the cockpit), which goes over the tubes. • Prepare for tensioning the frame : put the «shark tooth» in its gauge, get the cord out and the lever.
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• Push at the same time with your foot on the shark tooth and pull with your arm on the cord. The pin will automatically block the tooth in place when it’s OK. • Zip the rear deck and put the velcros together.
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STERN • Fold the zip end along the stern. • Fold the first part of the cover, then the second. • Tie the straps.
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COCKPIT RIM • Get the 4 screw heads passing • Put in place the rear half-hoop, put through the eyelets. the screw (in the bag pocket), through the top bar and screw the butterfly nut. • Clinch the cockpit rim on the screw •...
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• Finish the coskpit assembly with the front half-hoop, with its screw like the rear one. • Get the hem of the skin into the cockpit rim gauge. • Put in place the seat (see footrest tuning pages) • Inflate the stailairs (low pressure). Your Narak Cross is ready to hit the water !
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MISE EN PLACE DU GOUVERNAIL (option) • Pull the pin of the • Push the pin in place so • Run the lifting cord rudder and get the that the rudder is now on the side of the kayak rudder on the bracket. connected to the kayak.
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• Put the ring back in place. • Put back the shackle • Put in place the foot control plate in front of the rear seat. Clip it on the central tube. • Connect the rudder lines to the • Connect the plate to the pedals.
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• Disassembly of the kayak : do the other way round. Deflate the stabilairs. Get the cockpit rim off. Unzip the rear deck. Untie the three straps (sides and rear of the cockpit) that tie the skin to the frame. At the stern, pull on the pin that block the «shark tooth». Pull the tooth with the cord.
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