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Sounds awesome,

I have had similar plans for northern Scandinavia that never left the drawing board (but not in the pile of lost dreams either :)).

I would absolutely go for packrafts and two boats. Using two boats will in my opinion add alto of safety. If one totally breaks down or is lost with combined injury,  you can take what is absolutely…[Read more]

Thank you!

Looks great! Thanks for posting!

Its ALIVE!

Hi, bushrat from new zealand, keen to do a packraft build , and this looks an awesome site to get a kit and have a crack at it. Oh yer I’m not a spam bot.

cheers da rat

Matt,

Thanks for the reply.  Some good observations there.  I’ll have to go back and reread some stuff, your thoughts on longer vs shorter make more sense than what I was remembering.  The Aquabound Manta Ray Carbon is the paddle I’m looking at.  I may go ahead and go for it in the size needed for my kayak, and just see how it works out for…[Read more]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for this question – I’ve been thinking about writing a paddle review/comparison, so this will be a quick preview.

To some extent paddle choice depends on the type of paddling you’ll be doing in your packraft, but here I’m assuming you’ll want to do a little bit of everything and you’re looking for a good all-around…[Read more]

Hi. Pretty sure I’m not a robot.

Hi Robin,

Sealing around corners definitely gets more difficult the tighter the curves get. This video shows how I do it: https://www.diypackraft.com/construction/how-to/v2/step-6-center-seams/

You might consider making the drybag with pointy corners and/or making it slightly oversized, because as long as it’s larger than your backpack it will…[Read more]

Very cool! It looks like the modifying worked well 😀

Very Cool!!

Hi.

ok I think I have gotten the technique down. But now I am stalled trying to make the drybag. It’s to fit perfectly inside my pack, to make a roll-top waterproof liner.  I want it to have a rectangular bottom with rounded corners, but it looks like theres a limit to how tight the curves can be before everything gets really difficult. I am…[Read more]

Number 4, my last size large V2 with modifying.

This is the point where I have the problem. The blue rectangle is firmly attach to the floor, but the red rectangle is where there is not TPU either side because I patch a piece of fabric on top of it (because I cut the first 4cm as they were on the wrong side). The red area is where I can’t stick anything, and the problem is where there is joint…[Read more]

I’m still not sure what each piece is, but maybe it doesn’t matter. Can you make two patches, one for the inside and one for the outside? They could be sealed each other in the middle and to the pieces in the picture around the edges wherever TPU contacts TPU. In the spots where there is no TPU on either side you could sew it together and then use…[Read more]