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Yes, that was a helpful tip. I found areas on the fabric. It’s a lot of painting the raft with soap lol.

Do you find that the UL raft easily springs more small pinhole leaks, or that once you get it sealed up after assembly that it’s withstands use pretty well?

You may have to expand your search with the soap and water to cover more area, not just along the seams (there could be small areas of the tube fabric TPU that were accidentally melted with the iron, for example). You might also check the valve to make sure it’s not leaking.

I am having trouble finding leaks. I made UL raft, and took it for a test paddle, it’s great. I found two small leaks and plugged with aquaseal. But it’s still leaking and I can’t figure out from where. I painted on 1/2 dish soap 1/2 water.

Any ideas?

This iron has been sold.

For the “V4” boats with the hourglass shaped seat/seat back, I find that a single “Type 2” attachment point (on the Tie-Downs & Attachment Points page) works well at the rear of the cockpit floor. I tie a length of cord through the attachment point and around the neck of the seat.

Send me a message and I’ll help you out with this.

Can you share pics and a plan for the dual D ring attachment you made for the back band and thigh straps to connect to?

They just opened a Decathlon in SF, I can’t wait to go there. I’ll check this out and report back.

David, how did your dual chamber build go?

Has this become a standard part of the plan for the v4 boats? Or is there another method for keeping the seat in place?

Hmm, strange assertion since none of the Alpackas are multi chamber as far as I know. Those are definitely pro tools not pool toys.

How much is the zipper on it’s own, I don’t see an option to add that to my cart in the store

That looks like the way to do it. I basically want that, but in the lighter weight that would be possible with the 210D fabric. Could put a floor in it and put it together just like a DIY Packraft…I would just need someone to model it out for me in software.

Anyone on here game? I could also see if someone on Fiver could do it

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It failed on the yellow/blue seam shown in the pic in this post.  Right below the guys butt.  It failed on the inboard aspect of the boat.

I spoke with him today and apparently he was fidgeting around quite a bit with legs/hips, and he feels he put too much outward pressure on that seam.  The guy paddling in this photo is light, it didn’t fail in…[Read more]

This is exactly my thought…learn on building a UL DIYPackraft (at less than 2#) as I too want it for my simple “backpacking alpine lake boat”…then maybe move on making something more advanced.

In the mean time I did recently came across & purchased a very SLIGHTLY used 2018 Kokopelli Nervana with spray deck & accessories for about 1/2…[Read more]

Thanks for posting this, Derek! We can all be glad that it ended well (more or less) and we can learn from the experience – but man, what a scare! I’m so glad you’re all okay.

Just yesterday I was thinking that maybe I should write a post or make a video about cold weather packrafting, and you’ve spurred me into action. For now, here’s a related…[Read more]

Yep!