Re: Inflatables with folding aluminum floor.......... thoughts
Originally Posted by
Leveraction
I’m looking into a 9-12 foot inflatable and possibly a 3-4.5 horse outboard.
what I’m wondering about is the stability in an inflatable with a rigid floor that’s part of the rubber and obviously inflates and gets rigid while your inflating the rest of the boat, but how rigid is it ?, vs a fold up aluminium sectional floor.
I see some descent zodiacs for ~ $1400, plus a little outboard for ~ $ 700, you could set yourself up good for under $2500.00
thoughts , I’d appreciate some first hand comments.
You are talking about an inflatable with a high pressure air floor.
The Achilles LSI-E series is the best out there, but not the cheapest.
https://achillesboats.com/boatmodels...portboats/lsi/
Kits Inflatables in Vancouver sells them, I was the service manager there.
They are fairly rigid, but not quite as much as the ones with Aluminum floorboards.
They got an inflatable keel under the floor to give it a V shape.
The advantage is you don't need to take any floorboards out and re-install later,
just open all the valves and roll it up, easy.
They are very stable.
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