Good morning, today I'm just doing a
short hike and I'm just trying out this
new pack raft which I just recently purchased
so yeah good day to get out for it
and see how it goes
so the advantage of this packraft is that
it's got this rapid inflation method.
I blew the whole thing up and it only took three breaths
most of it you can just kind of capture like a big dry bag, get most of the air in there
really easy and then just roll it up and
then just top it up with this mouth piece
so this raft is from a company called
Uncharted Supplies and it's called the
rapid rafts obviously because it's got
the mechanism where you can rapidly
inflate it and you're not sitting there
trying to blow it up
you see some pack rafts and
people are like spending ages just
inflating them because they've got this
little nozzle and they are using an air sack to pump it up
Where as this literally took about a minute
but this is more a flat water raft
so for these sort of rivers it is perfect,  It is not a real whitewater raft
although apparently it's durable enough to go on the whitewater I'm not sure if it is the right shape and stuff
but for what I need, which
is more just cruising around in smaller
rivers here.. I think this will be perfect
just gives you some more
options to explore which you may not have otherwise
so being a pack raft it doesn't have a keel
it just has a flat bottom
so as you paddle you tend to move around a little bit
where as in a kayak or a canoe you
just cut through the water
I think the distances you'd be able to do in this thing
are obviously a lot more limited but if you
kind of not hurry and just out exploring I think this would be perfect
A while ago I was watching a
video from "Eric off track" he's a YouTuber
If you are not following him you probably should he has some great content and one of his
recent videos he was in Tasmania and he
was following a river
and he got to a point where it
was like cliffs on either side and just
deep water and and this would have been
perfect for that sort of circumstances
where you kind of want to get across but
the water is too cold or too deep and
you've got cliffs on either side this would have been perfect
the advantage of a packraft I suppose
being so light is that when you get to a
blockage like that where you can't
really paddle past it's really easy to
just pick up the raft and walk around it
my first impressions of the rapid raft
is this is pretty good so it certainly
gives me a few more options when I do go hiking and maybe want to explore different areas
would be nice to do a bit of hiking and then also just pull out a pack raft
it's about 1.5 kilos and it packs down reasonably small
I'll show you later on...  oh actually I showed at the start how big it was, it wasn't too bad
if you were doing a long hike you probably wouldn't want to carry it
But for  pack rafting type hike it would be perfect
The other good thing about the pack raft or rapid raft is that was about $275
US dollars whereas like if you look at
like full-on whitewater rafting
type pack rafts they like over grand so
if you like hard core whitewater pack rafting
and certainly spending the money makes
sense but if you just go hiking and maybe
do a bit of fishing this would be perfect
There's quite a bit of room to stretch out
there are little straps here to tie on your backpack
so to release the air on the rapid
raft ... press in here
that will slowly take some of the pressure off
once you have it down a little bit you can just unclip it, you just need to watch out it doesn't smack you
in the face
that's it, the size of it. I've picked it up pretty rough but you get the idea
It is about 1.5 kilos
it packs up really small and 
you can just chuck it in your backpack
so that is the pack raft just stuck on the back of my um
backpack
well I'm all packed up and just heading back home now
it was excellent, just testing out that
pack raft I think it's gonna be lots of
fun and it worked really well
So the the pack raft is called a rapid
raft from uncharted supplies it was
about $300 US or $275 US and yeah it's
got the rapid inflation design where you
can blow it up really quickly
it's only a one-person raft
but it that works really good I was
really impressed with it so hopefully
I'll be able to take it on a few more
adventures
all right so I might sign off here
my next videos will be
from my New Zealand trip so yeah look
forward to those and I'll see you guys
next time
you
