Jeb

Are you still liking the hot air gun Lyn?  I imagine this is probably the best route to go for the folks that want to do a lot of raft building, and I could use it for other plastic welding too..

Lame!  They have a heat setting of 1 – 4.  Needs a 5 perhaps..  I was surprised when I opened the package it only says it’s 10 watts!  Hard to believe it could do anything with 10 watts, but the heating element is right in the pad.  I did find that it never ever ever got too hot, which is nice as after a while I stopped even bothering to test it o…[Read more]

I’m still pretty excited about the potential for a two person boat.  Has anyone seen the new Alpacka Forager?  Something like that would be perfect.

http://www.alpackaraft.com/product/forager/

If I was designing one, which I don’t have the software to do, I’d make the side tube parallel with each other.  Overall boat would be fatter like the Fo…[Read more]

Not thrilled at all with the clover irons.  Both our 120v units don’t get hot enough to do anything.  I already had a Polyvance Miniweld model 7 airless plastic welder and it works very well.  Also just picked up a Dritz Petite Press portable mini iron, it seems to work very well too.  The Dritz is more ergonomic than most for those long sea…[Read more]

A two person boat plan and/or kit would be phenomenal.  Something similar to the Explorer 42 perhaps..  I think the boat plans are probably the most helpful for folks, once one learns how to assemble them, they can come up with their own accessories.  Getting the patterns for a new boat design would be a lot harder.

Inflatable PFD would be pr…[Read more]