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Excellent – sounds good!

One thing to note is that the higher up the center of gravity is, the less stable the boat will be and the lower the sides will seem. It should still be really stable (because it’s so wide), but just be careful with the little ones 🙂

Hi,

My name is Johan and I’ve recently bought my first packraft from Matt. I’m from Sweden, right now living in Stockholm but born and raised in the south of Sweden and this fall ought to move up north.

Cheers, JW

Thanks Matt! Really appreciate the reply, even if you don’t have a definitive length for me. I think confirming that 1 paddler could handle a long boat is helpful. If anything it seems the longer boat will fare better on the mellow lakes and rivers we’ll use (your “Tracking, or Directional Stability” article makes that point with regard to…[Read more]

Hi Thomas – you would need  2m (~6′) of tube fabric to make the two tubes 3′ longer, plus 1 m of floor material. Cheers

Hi Joe, I’m sorry to say I don’t have much useful experience when it comes to taking on smaller passengers, so I can’t really say how much room they’ll need. My experience has been that you can cram a lot of people or gear into a small area fairly easily, but the amount of time it remains comfortable depends on how much room everyone has to shift…[Read more]

Nice! I’m glad to see you looking so happy!!

Nice! Thanks for posting!

Hey Eliot,

thanks a ton for the insights and thanks to Matt for putting up the documentation.

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I finished my first V3 on the weekend – all the outfitting is yet to come. I was so eager to try it out that I even forgot to pull off all of the masking tape.

Cheesy picture paddeling it on the Danube:

Hey Thomas!

Yep, he wood-form is described in the V3 instructions.
You’ll find it there at step 4.2 (and never want to miss it from then on :-))

Hello Mark,

Getting my V3 Packraft on Thursday.  It might be in the V3 instructions but I haven’t seen it referenced anywhere else (maybe just missing it).  What “Wood Form” are you referring to?  You say it’s key, I’d like to not mess this up! 🙂

Also would like an answer to this!  The voyageur sounds like (and looks like from pictures) two people couldn’t sit comfortable in it as it stands.

I also had a question (maybe even you could answer joe).  Buying extra material to lengthen this.  If I want to lengthen it by 3 feet, would I then need 6 ft of the 210D material that’s sold, or is…[Read more]

Hi! I am not a robot, but I am a forum lurker, so I probably will not be posting much.

This packraft looks awesome, and I hope to build one when I finish some of my other projects.