In the field, if you don’t have any camp soap, you can use plain water – soap just makes the bubbles more obvious. If the environment is too loud or the leak is so small that you can’t hear it, spread some soapy water over the fabric and soap bubbles will form wherever air is escaping. Much like fixing a punctured bicycle tube, the easiest way to find the hole is to inflate the packraft and squeeze it with your hands while rotating it around your head as you listen for the hiss of escaping air. Large punctures will be easy to find, but most leaks are small and can take more effort to locate. The first step is to figure out where the leak is. With all of that said, it is a good idea to keep your packraft airtight, if for no other reason than it will feel more rigid and responsive on the water when fully inflated.
If you are a long distance from shore, such as crossing a fjord or large lake, there are no sharp objects nearby and you are moving relatively slowly, so there is no need to worry about puncturing your packraft there unless you stop to practise juggling knives or something equally foolish. Punctures are only likely to occur in moving-water situations where momentum shoves you and your packraft against a sharp object with a great deal of force. I have paddled around a lake for an hour with two people in my packraft while it was leaking air because I was too lazy to find the hole… my passenger didn’t even notice.īecause air pressure is distributed evenly inside a packraft and it is inflated to a relatively low pressure, the fabric tends to deform around objects it impacts instead of ripping open, making lightweight fabrics much more puncture-resistant than intuition would suggest. With your Boston valve positioned correctly, you can even top up the air pressure with a few breaths while you are out on the water, and even with a 1 cm (~1/2 inch) puncture in your packraft, air escapes slowly enough that you can paddle to shore long before losing buoyancy. The volume of air inside the tubes is large, and holes in the fabric are typically small, so it takes a long time to lose so much air you can’t stay afloat. Fortunately, that is not a big problem, because small leaks and even large tears are easy to repair.Ĭontrary to common sense, a leaky packraft is nothing to be afraid of. If you’re paddling an ultra-lightweight inflatable packraft in any but the most ideal conditions, it’s almost inevitable that your boat will develop a leak at some point.
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