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Hi Matt,
I’ll get some pictures and documentation together for you regarding the outfitting, hopefully this week.
Hi Clemens,
The rod that forms the coaming is currently a single piece of 3/8″ OD, 1/4″ ID Polyethylene (PEX) tubing. This is available at most hardware stores in North America for installation in household plumbing as an alternative to copper or CPVC.
There is a short section of 1/4″ aluminum tube inserted as a joining piece.
I believe this is what Alpacka and others are doing on the current crop of whitewater oriented packrafts.
Following Matt’s construction guide for a spray deck, I have a small slit in the inside rear of the cockpit that I feed the coaming into and snap the joint together through.
I will be making some improvements to this area as it’s the one thing I’m not 100% happy with. It is currently very difficult to install an off the shelf whitewater kayak bungee sprayskirt. However, once it’s on, it’s fairly secure.
I think a slightly longer coaming piece than I currently have will create a deeper and more secure lip for the skirt to fit over and make it easier to snap into place.
Hope this helps.
Just wanted to share some photos of my V3 kit.
I outfitted it as a light weight whitewater boat with three point thigh straps, a backband and a whitewater deck with a cockpit coaming.
Several of us ran laps on a local class II in it for it’s maiden voyage.
Coming from a rafting and whitewater kayaking background, the packraft performed really well and exceeded my expectations of handling and speed.
Everyone who tried it is sold on buying a kit from Matt.
Now I really want to build another V3 whitewater boat as a self bailer.
