With the ends sewn up and the skin tightened, Liz stitches up the deck seam and attaches the coaming. We use a simple whipstitch on deck which isn’t quite as pretty as some methods but it’s a LOT faster.
After attaching the coaming, we wet down the skin and then steam the fabric to tighten it. Different nylon cloths have different working characteristics so even though this method works well for us it might not work on a different fabric.
Sometimes nylon needs to be sewn on wet, in which case you have to keep it continuously moist from the moment you start to the moment you finish.
Working time here is about 4 hours.
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