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Thanks! I’ve added some of your pictures to the How-To page for tie-downs and attachment points 🙂

I second Mark’s opinion. It’s safe to open the top cover of the Boston valve on the water because of the one-way valve inside, and you can top up through that. Bruce from Fairbanks carries a ~1 meter length of 7/8″ OD silicone tubing to plug into the Boston valve so he doesn’t have to twist around to get his mouth on it, which is a good idea. I…[Read more]

I’m interested to see your spray deck when it’s completed. I’d really like one on mine, but I don’t want to commit to the more permanent whitewater style spray deck since I will often just be paddling around flat lakes fishing with my children…

I’d be fine with some sort of removeable cruiser deck, but I’m not sure what the best way will be to…[Read more]

I can’t speak from much experience since I just finished my raft, but I’d say that it’s not necessary. If I was building a second raft, I’d probably leave it off for now and decide later.

That said, I did mount mine already and I extended it with some silicone hose so it can be used from the normal seating position. But if you aren’t going to…[Read more]

I couldn’t find the right type of attachment loops for hooking the backband shock cord to the plate anchors… so I made some. Used some scrap 8AWG copper wire and a $13 wire bending tool from Lee Valley Tools. The nice thing about copper is it doesn’t rust, its malleable, and it’s easily solderable. I wouldn’t use it for some heavier duty…[Read more]

More pictures of the refinements I’ve added over the past couple days…

Finished grab lines on the stern, added thigh straps and a backband:

The thigh straps and back band are simply some shoulder straps that came with my MEC duffel bags over the years:

Had to name it of course…

I’d like to introduc you to the Wavefaring…[Read more]

Excellent! Thanks for the update 🙂

Hey,

glad it all worked out in the end and congratulations: nice raft you built there! 🙂

Hi from  Spain.

Are there people from here?

Best Regards

Ok, packraft is complete! I’ll post up pictures in a bit. Short Answer, this error I made in construction caused no noticeable difference. I can’t even see any wrinkles on that seam. Turns out I had my iron a tad bit too hot which caused some wrinkling leading to the shorter piece. All I did to fix this was cut the floor to match where the tube…[Read more]

Added a few tie down points:

one inside on the floor with a paracord loop to clip a nalgene onto: It’s simply 2 – 2″ circles of 210D with a 1000D semicircle in between.

Then 4 on the bow for a grab line (using the improved tie-down method posted here on the board):

And then took it for a test drive in grandmas pool:

Feel free to use anything I post here 🙂 I’ll take some good measurements of things tonight and post up more information and details. The measurements you provided for the TIzip location worked out beautifully.