packraft
trail boat

A packraft is designed to be light enough to be carried for extended distances.

Several trails provide foot or horse access, but large braided rivers often stop progress unless a packraft is used.

Its influence on American adventure racing, backcountry use of the packraft, and ultralight hiking is significant.

The discomfort of these non-duarble boats led to the invention and marketing of the modern packraft.

The most common form of transportation is by foot and packraft, although bicycles, skis, and paragliders have been used by intrepid racers.

A packraft can be carried for extended periods, along with food, water, shelter, and other supplies that would enable the individual to traverse long distances through difficult terrain.

This classical use has been modified by most packraft owners to shorter day trips that mix trail hiking and river and creek floats or lake paddles.

While most rafts are large multi-passenger craft, the smallest rafts are single-person whitewater craft, see packraft.

A packraft is distinguished from a strictly man-portable raft insofar as it is designed to be light enough to represent only a fraction of the total weight an individual can reasonably carry.

The exception to this size rule is usually the packraft, which is designed as a portable single-person raft and may be as small as long and weigh as little as .

A typical cold water set-up including packraft with thigh straps and spray deck, safety lines, paddle, suitable clothing (such as a dry suit), inflation bag, helmet, backpack, dry bag weigh 15 pounds (7 kg).

Gordon was the last one back, and in the trailing boat crossing the river.

A split gives the trailing boat a chance to catch up, sailing in different wind and current.

In this leg, if the trailing boat is close enough it has an advantage of blocking the wind and slowing the opponent down.

On upwind runs the leading boat uses this weapon to spoil the trailing boat's air.

On downwind legs the advantage flips, and the trailing boat tries to steal the leading boat's wind.

Crews would set off one behind the other, the trailing boat(s) trying to catch, or "bump", the boat ahead.

It appeared to be about tacking too close, a tactic that could impede Young America, the trailing boat.

Trail boat park storage is available for quality boats kept on trailers for launch and recovery by the owner (slipway free).

The trail boat festivals, the BCN challenge and a group traveling to France.

Work was also carried out to construct a new slipway on Eastgate Green, to allow trailed boats to be launched onto the town section.

The Americans raised a protest flag, and the umpire in a trailing boat concurred, penalizing the Swiss and sticking them with a 270-degree turn.

Bloodied hooks baited with meat and fish trailed boats, steel shark hooks dangling and glinting.

The three craft moved silently out into the Choptank, drifted westward for some time, the two skiffs oblivious of, the trailing boat, which kept at a safe distance.

A change in wind direction of a few degrees can catapult a trailing boat into the lead, but such lead changes - and the drama they generate - are often imperceptible.

Instead, he dropped into the water, striking out in a path parallel to the line that ran between the cat and the trailing boat, which rocked in the cat's churning wake.

To keep this advantage the lead boat will often try to "blanket" the trailing boat(s) by maneuvering to keep them in the disturbed foul air she is creating to her lee.

The Club believes this would be easy to administer on a pilot scale with trail boats and, if proven successful, could then be extended to all other boats as an annual licence.

Conversely the trailing boats will try to overtake or otherwise escape the bad air blanket created by the lead boat and head for clear air without losing too much speed or momentum.

Packraft and trail boat are colloquial terms for a small, portable inflatable boat designed for use in all bodies of water, including technical whitewater and ocean bays and fjords.

High Frequency Direction Finding (HF/DF, known as Huff-Duff) and Ultra allowed the Allies to route convoys around wolfpacks when they detected radio transmissions from trailing boats.

June 1987 IWA holds annual trail boat rally on canal at Frimley Lodge Park. The National Steam and Small Boat Festival, directed by Tony Davis, is a great success attracting over 20,000 visitors.

Thankfully nothing disastrous happened this time and it was wonderful to see the lines of narrow boats and cruisers on the restored canal in place of the trail boats which were the only craft able to gain access to the water 10 years ago.

Gwendoline and Ruth were both sunk in narrow Jennings Canyon in 1897 when Ruth spun out of control after a log became jammed in her sternwheel, she struck the trailing boat Gwendoline and both went down.

The United States, through the Embassy's NAS, continued to procure repair parts for the trail boats transferred by the USG and to fund additional training in fleet maintenance and boarding operations.