Packrafting

A Beginner’s Guide: Buying, Learning & Exploring

Chris Scott

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English

Fernhurst Books Limited
01 December 2022

Extreme sports; Water sports & recreations; Canoeing & kayaking; Active outdoor pursuits

Series: Beginner's Guides

Packrafts are rugged, portable rafts, small enough to attach under a rucksack, but stable on the water to reassure first time paddlers. Weighing from 1-3 kilos, they open up a whole new world of amphibious adventuring, from navigating easily accessible waterways to discovering more challenging rivers and lochs only reachable on foot or bicycle.

Packrafting: A Beginners' Guide is a perfect introduction to the game-changing recreational opportunities opened up by packrafting. It takes you through the different types and features of packrafts to ensure that you buy a boat that is right for you and have the right gear to use with it. It clearly explains the basic paddling skills and how to safely evaluate risks on the water. It also introduces the different types of adventures you can undertake with your packraft, from paddling a local canal or river to lashing a bicycle over the bow or using a packable sail to traverse open water.

The book is comprehensively illustrated with over 130 colour photographs making it easy to understand and clear to follow.

""Interesting and informative. Chris Scott's very careful descriptions and explanations of the gadgetry did convince me that this system would work if one wanted to tramp the moorland as well as explore freshwater lakes and rivers."" - Yachting Monthly

AUTHOR: Adventure travel writer Chris Scott discovered packrafts in 2009 and he soon realised these lightweight, robust and portable boats were game changers for exploring the wilderness on land and water. His adventures started in the glens and lochs of the Scottish Highlands before heading for the wild rivers of France's Massif Central, Utah's Canyonlands, Iceland, Turkey's Lycian coast and New Zealand as well as packrafting London's 200-year-old Regent's Canal.

130 colour illustrations

By: Chris Scott
Imprint: Fernhurst Books Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 170mm,
Weight: 136g
ISBN: 9781912621415
ISBN 10: 191262141X
Series: Beginner's Guides
Pages: 48
Publication Date: 01 December 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Introduction; About Packrafts; On the Water: The Basics; Inflation Valves & Pumps; Packrafting Gear; Outfitting & Load Carrying; Packraft Care & Repair; On the Trail: Basic Gear; Safety & Weather; Bikerafting; Packraft Sailing; Packrafting at Sea; Packrafting Adventures.

Adventure travel writer Chris Scott discovered packrafts in 2009 and he soon realised these lightweight, robust and portable boats were game changers for exploring the wilderness on land and water. His adventures started in the glens and lochs of the Scottish Highlands before heading for the wild rivers of France’s Massif Central, Utah’s Canyonlands, Iceland, Turkey’s Lycian coast and New Zealand as well as packrafting London’s 200-year-old Regent’s Canal.

Reviews for Packrafting: A Beginner’s Guide: Buying, Learning & Exploring

Interesting and informative. Chris Scott's very careful descriptions and explanations of the gadgetry did convince me that this system would work if one wanted to tramp the moorland as well as explore freshwater lakes and rivers. (Yachting Monthly)