Steam your strips with your clothes iron. I usually have a bucket of water handy and I get the strip moist/wet right before ironing them into place.

Check out Spidey's web page www.dbeweb.com/kayak/ he talks about using and iron.

Jason

: I'm stuck! I've stripped all the way to the water line on the Little Auk.
: It's getting very hard to twist the strips 90 degrees at the bow and
: stern, then lay flat on the bottom. I asked for half strips from the guy
: that cut my strips but did not get them. Is there anyway to accomplish
: this using regular strips?

: Ross Witherell