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Beautiful shot with the glacier in the background!

First float.  Still have some pinhole leaks to fix, but it works fine.  

‘Deadpool’ packraft. Spray deck and decals to be added soon.

Thanks Matt, I was thinking that sewing the panels together along the seam and then welding them so that the sewing is holding it all in place to ensure a good weld?  Join all the panels and seal them before then attaching to the floor the inner floor seems would be simple enough a nd i can’t see that the to seams would be much different from…[Read more]

Sounds good. I think you’ll find that a properly welded seam is stronger than the fabric panels, so sewing the seams would be redundant. You can see this demonstrated in my original fabric comparison video, where I show how the fabric tears before the welds give out. Cheers

Thanks Matt.  Thats exactly what I was thinking.  If you were able to just spread the pieces out a little and draw around them I could certainly play with that.  Ill see how robust the two I currently have are before deciding if sewing has any benefit.  Thanks

Hi everybody from the French Alps. I’ve just ordered a sample of the fabrics and will probably start a V3 build this summer.

Max

Hi Conrad, unfortunately there’s no simple way for me to add an allowance to the pieces, but if you want I could make a kit with the lines drawn in pen instead of cutting them out, and then you could add an allowance yourself. It might be time-consuming for you though.