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Thanks for posting – the black Atlin looks really cool! You’re ready for some special ops now. I’ve been waffling back and forth about offering black as one of the standard options for the reason you mentioned.

I’ve made that dinosaur head (haha!) mistake myself, so don’t sweat it. Your boat still looks great!

Here is my Atlin build. I was able to finish it in about two weeks working at about the 40 hours total time. I got it in the longest length possible even though I would fit in the smallest, figuring it might have a bit of a tracking and speed advantage with the longer length. Selected black just before the green and orange came up as options. Have…[Read more]

Thanks for posting, Clyde – it looks like you did a great job! And thanks for logging your time and showing the final weight – that’s really useful. Cheers!

Here’s the newest addition to my boat quiver, the Ultralight.

I found the Ultralight kit took me about half of the time of my Atlin build. Altogether, this project took me 27.5 hours to complete.

Thanks for posting this! Cheers

With some advice from Matt I made some directional attachment points for adding an Alpacka raft backband. The photos are pretty self-explanatory if you’ve gotten to this stage of your build. Outer dimensions ~3.5″x6.5″.

I love it!

The Greek letters remind me of all those physics classes I took…

I decided my packraft needed a name.  It is Greek for “Of the Lake” with θάλασσας  pronounced Thalassas.

Got it, thanks.

Great work, Clyde, and thanks for the feedback about your experience! It looks like you have a beautiful playground there for adventures, so enjoy!

Here’s My new 120cm Atlin! The project was my first packraft build and took me about a month and a half to complete, working on it a bit every day.

It’s adventure time for now, but I look forward to starting on another DIY packraft in the near future.

Hi Eric, now that I’ve gotten rid of the offcuts I had accumulated over several years, the offcuts and seconds are rarely in stock (like only a few units added to the shop every few months).

There are three reasons, the first being that I include more of the scrap fabric with the packraft kits than I used to, the second being that I have some…[Read more]

Wow, Eric – having done this myself, I know how much work you put into it! Great result – thanks for sharing!

Agreed, it sounds like UltraLight is the way to go for you. I added a few attachment points to mine and its 1050grams so less than 2 pounds. I don’t think a thicker floor would do much for it other than add weight. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link and with the air-holding tubes still mostly made up of UL fabric, that’s where your…[Read more]

I thought it would look good with the logo on it so I did that this weekend.  I downloaded the logo and printed it out full scale on 11″x17″ paper.  One sheet was used for alignment, cut down to just the edges of the letters and line, and the other used to transfer the letter patterns to the fabric (used leftovers from the seat cushion).  To si…[Read more]