RAID 325
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RAID 325 Instruction Book

• Get your parts out of the bag : check how they are stored in the bag and how the skin is plied. It will help you when you will get the disassembled parts back in the bag after your paddling session. • Display them on a flat and clean surface. Your Narak Cross bag contents : 1- skin. 2- inflatable seat. 3- crossribs. 4- bow part. 5- aluminum tubes. 6- stern part. Front crossribs (red marks). crossrib n°2 crossrib n°1 Rear crossribs (blue marks)

• 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 tu

• Take the bow part and slide it into the keel tube (red marks) • Clip all the crossribs to the keel tube, following the color code. All the marks has to be below and on the same side (see belo

• Go to the rear of the boat. Take the two longer tubes and connect them to the top nipples, by sliding the blue caps. (red caps go at the bow) • Clip the upper tubes to the crossribs, all the way to the front end

• Connect the bow part to the top tubes. • Now you can connect the lower tubes and clip them all the way to the rear end. • put in place the last remaining short tubes (deck tubes) (red at the front, blue at the rea

• Clip them at the top of the central crossribs. • Your frame is assembled

FOOTREST INSTALLATION When assembling for the first time your kayak, you have to adjust the footrest, connected to the seat. The footrest will be clipped on the keel tube. Put it in place between crossrib n°1 and 2. Inflate the seat and put it in the kayak. Tie the seat straps at the rear around the crossrib.

Do the same at the front with the narrow straps. Connect the footrest to the seat with the large straps. Seat into the kayak and adjust the straps to the legth of your legs.

ASSEMBLY FOLLOWING • Get the frame into the skin. • Be careful that the frame has to be perfectly centered in the skin : the top tube has to be aligned with the black triangle on deck. • Push the frame in the skin to the m

• 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 togeth

• Prepare for tensioning the frame : put the «shark tooth» in its gauge, get the cord out and the handle. Put one heel on the «shark tooth» and the handle in the opposite ha

• 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 togeth

• Fold the zip end along the stern. • Fold the first part of the cover. • Fold the second part of the cover. • Attach the velcro strap. • Put in place the seat (see footrest installation pages) • Inflate the stabilairs (low pressure). Your Raid 325 is ready to hit th

• Disassembly of the kayak : do the other way round. Deflate the stabilairs. Unzip the rear deck. Untie the side straps 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. Get the frame out of the skin. Disassemble the tubes and the crossribs. Fold the skin on its side, the deck on the inside. The kayak has to be dry, if you have to fold it with still water on it, don’t delay to get it out of its bag to avoid moisture. • Kayak maintenance : rince your boat on the inside and outside after each outing at sea. Rub with a...

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