Last weekend my friend Derek came for a visit and wanted to try out my DIY packraft. It was a windy day with some chop and even whitecaps on the lake, but he paddled it without difficulty.

Just outside the frame of this photo is a kayaker being rescued after capsizing in the waves, but the packraft just bobs up and down in the chop – very buoyant and stable!

Update: Here is a video of me testing my second packraft in much bigger and less predictable waves!


7 Comments

    Matt (Admin) · September 21, 2016 at 6:34 pm

    Cool – it looks great! I think it is just for decoration, because the other Alpacka beside it does not have as many pieces in the spray deck and the deck still looks tight.

Nikita · September 9, 2016 at 3:02 am

Hi Matt, great website and ideas. Thank you for sharing.
Do you plan to make whitewater spraydeck?
I am going to make it for my packraft and at the moment the only problem is the cockpit poles. I have tried different plastic ones but they are too soft. I am going to make it from aluminium tubes, but I’d like to keep it flexible.

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