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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]

The 3 sides where I circle in black are on the wrong side of the tpu, so nothing will stick on them. The red circle is the only side where I can stick the patch into the tube piece. That’s because I seal the piece 1L on the wrong side from the beginning (including the internal reinforcement strip). The green line means there is no TPU on either…[Read more]

Hi Matteo, together we will find a way! Can you post some more pictures or draw a diagram to explain the problem? It is difficult to visualize and I’m not sure I understand what must be fixed. Thanks!

Really beautiful …👍