The Cleaning up ceremony for my Orange Pearl

Date: 7th June 2009

On the Saturday afternoon, i did a partial cleaning on my Yak and the fishing stuff. Doing it on a hot afternoon is really a pain in the neck and some more it is done after a fishing trip. It took me nearly 2 hours to clean up my fishing stuff and also with the splashing of water and wiping on the yak exterior. I needed to make sure that i can removed as much salt as possible so that to prevent bringing back the salt home. Till everything is kinda of dry then i can loaded it back into my Forester.

Seriously, when i'm back home, it took me another 2 hours to thoroughly wash up my stuff with 100% salt removed as well as doing another round of splashing of water and wiping on and in the Kayak. During the washing of the yak, it is good to inflate it so that most part can be accessible for the cleaning.

After washing up, i deflated the yak and took out the advancedframe and flooring and air it dry. After the cleaning, it was around 7pm and there were no sun for the speedy drying up. So, i folded the Yak and left it to dry.

On the next day, which is today (Sunday), the weather was really hot in the morning with around 33 degree celsius. Since the outer cover and the advancedframe of the yak were still wet, I left it to dry under the shade. Its seems that the outercover dried up much faster than the advancedframe due to the different type of material used. All in all, it took me nearly 3 hours to get everything dry up and ready to pack into the bag.

Here are the assemble procedure which i'm sharing with all:

1. AEC- Advanced frame and outer cover

2. Installing back the Bow Rib into the advancedframe

3. Same goes to the Stern Rib

4. Install the advancedframe into the cover from the Stern

5. Make sure the Ribs goes all the way till the end

6. Aligned the advancedframe and the cover

7. Velco near the stern are aligned properly and then tape it together

8. Fixed the Bow into the outercover

9. Unzip the cover and push it in (Hmmm...)

10. Make sure the ribs and the frame goes all the way in

11. Aligned and adjust the velco near the bow

12. Zipped back the cover

13. Time to install the floor

14. Adjust the floor in the yak

15. Put back the Chamber 1 valve cover

16. Bingo! Everything is put back

17. Time to fold the yak into the bag

18. Put the 2 seats and the foot brace into the bag

19. All nicely in the bag

20. Back to the storeroom

Hope that all of you will like it. The cleaning needs lots of patient and time. Enjoy the cleaning process and happy cleaning your AE-Yak!!!