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Gorgeous!

And we’re finally allowed to travel around Scotland! So I took my Skeena out to Loch Laidon on typical Scottish weather day 😉

Here’s another vote for UL kit. @Matt, good luck sourcing the fabric!

Thanks for your interest in the Ultralight kits 🙂

I am planning to offer them again in the future, but sourcing fabric is an endless headache, so I’m not sure when it’ll happen.

Barbara,

I have used one of the Petite Press irons. They have a pretty weak handle that prevents using much pressure to seal the seam, and they are low wattage, if I recall it is a 40 watt iron. It’s owner found it very slow to bring a seam up to temperature and seal. He gave up and got a model aircraft iron.

As others have noted, the 165 watt…[Read more]

I was at Fabricland the other day and did a double take when I saw a mini iron – looked like the widths of the packraft seams, already had the bottom perfectly flat, and is available in Canada.  Kinda wish I had this when I did my Skeena (I used an Aliexpress iron that I sanded down).  I have no idea if it works, but reports on it look pretty g…[Read more]

Very interesting! Thanks for this.

Hello, I am not a robot. Just registering a bit preemptively while I window shop for my first packraft. 🙂

I used a cheap hot air soldering station for three packrafts (Telkwa, 2P and UL). I think you will find it with different names, but it’s always something with “858D”. I bought this: https://www.amazon.de/Digital-Desoldering-Reparatur-Werkzeug-Elektrowerkzeuge/dp/B074N1FR9N

I dialed it to 270 °C and intensity of 3.5 for the normal…[Read more]