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shmobodia•

My experience is with an Alpacka Gnu, so quite different from a portable frame and outer skin design. My main concern from watching the video is it looks like a looooot of pieces to out it all together. Lots of failure points. Perhaps it would be good for the occasional trip on a calm lake as shown, but probably not for river use.

My complaint with the Gnu, and most packrafts is the tracking is terrible. Most aren't designed with that as the primary feature though. The Traditional Gnu has a center tube and mini-fin to help with that, but still paddles like a bathtub. :). I the video they seemed to be purposefully paddling easy, so I wonder how well this foldable really tracks in the water.

I think an inflatable raft would be better than this in my opinion.

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batwingsuit•

You can see in one or two shots that this thing tracks just as poorly as any packraft. I would never trade my Alpacka for this. It's smaller when packed, weighs about the same, way simpler and quicker to set up, and it can carry a crazy amount of gear or people in certain situations. Oh yeah, and it does whitewater.

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DannyPinn•

Well i certainly wouldn't take it on any sort of swift water.

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