Speed Coach Rigging 101

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Submitted by cwinklevoss on April 13, 2007 - 8:47pm. ::

A chronological photo guide for noobs. The start of the project!
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  1. Speed Coach Rigging 101
  2. Speed Coach Rigging 101
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Clean the appropriate places with alcohol swab (stroke magnet under seat, impeller magnet on bottom of hull, wire tie harness, and speed coach harness placement). Make sure to let these areas dry before placing adhesive otherwise they will not stick.

  1. Speed Coach Rigging 101
  2. Speed Coach Rigging 101
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Run wiring from harness to proper places in cockpit (choose a side to go past the feet, either left of right in order to avoid wear).

  1. Speed Coach Rigging 101
  2. Speed Coach Rigging 101

Remove adhesive and place magnets and harnesses. An easy trick to attach a magnet to the seat is to use two popsicle sticks and black electric tape. Make sure stroke magnet under seat is close and inline with stroke magnet on deck.

If you are having trouble getting speed reading from impeller, you can try placing blue impeller magnet on bottom of cockpit parallel with hull (opposite of perpendicular orientation pictured below)

  1. Speed Coach Rigging 101
  2. Speed Coach Rigging 101
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Place wire tie harnesses accordingly and tie down wiring making sure to remove slack. Bundle and secure any excess wiring.

  1. Speed Coach Rigging 101
  2. Speed Coach Rigging 101
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Lastly, test magnets and place impeller on outside of hull (not pictured below) inline with blue magnet on bottom of cockpit. Make sure that the impeller is inline with skeg and pointing in right direction of waterflow! Testing impeller/magnet helps to have 2 people (one to blow air on impeller and other to look to see if data shows up).

  1. Speed Coach Rigging 101
  2. Speed Coach Rigging 101

Now go test it out on the water!