Luc Mehl's latest and best creation highlights his skills as cameraman/editor, Paul Schauer's as superb boatman, and the Alpacka packraft as a forgiving, fun craft:
Paul's season highlights is also so well crafted that I'd like to take up hardshelling, too:
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Honestly I don't think that Luc's video would have been possible in any other water craft. A kayak would have got slammed around and I would have worried about getting broached or pinned. The forgiving nature of the 2011 Llama totally made everything possible. In the packraft I could float more (and higher in the water) and bounce off things rather than get slammed around. Plus there is no way you could get the helium in a kayak (the seal isn't tight enough with the spray skirt). You also need the extra volume in the 2011 packrafts for the helium; there just isn't enough volume in the older models to help get you upstream.
ReplyDeleteYep, Paul, I gotta get some He.
ReplyDeleteenough of this chemistry, let's go boating. haha.
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Yeah, at the end of the session Paul said something like, "I guess there are some things a packraft can do that the hardshell can't." I'm pretty sure he was referring to the skirt seal that Pablo mentions.
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