Installing a Curved Zipper in a Vinyl Window

Your boat’s enclosure can get hot and stuffy. Installing a roll-up window is a smart way to bring cooling airflow and much-needed air circulation into your enclosure. In this how-to video, we’ll show you how to install and sew a curved zipper into window material. And we have some useful tips and tricks on how to draw the perfect curve, how to bend and shape bias binding, and how to bend and sew a coil zipper around the curve of the window. INSTALLING A CURVED ZIPPER IN A VINYL WINDOW CHAPTERS LIST: Intro - 0:00 Marking Clear Vinyl Window Material - 0:39 Basting Bias Binding - 2:40 Testing Thread Tension - 6:41 Sewing Inside Edges of Binding - 9:01 Marking & Pre-Shrinking Zipper - 13:15 Basting & Sewing First Half of Zipper - 15:37 Basting & Sewing Second Half of Zipper - 20:31 Slitting Clear Vinyl - 26:55 How to Remove Seamstick Residue - 28:52 Materials & Tools List - 30:21 MATERIALS LIST: Clear Vinyl Window Material from Sailrite