How much weight can I carry in an Alpacka?
How much weight you can carry depends on how you expect the boat to handle. The actual maximum numbers are “soft,” meaning they aren’t fixed. Your realistic load limitations are cargo bulk and handling loss. As a guideline we suggest: • Yourself + 0-60 lbs. (0-27 kgs.) Agile boat handling. • Yourself + 60-100 lbs. (27-45 kgs.) Noticeable handling loss. • Yourself + greater than 100 lbs. / 45 kgs. Your boat will handle progressively worse as you continue to load it. Users have loaded their boats easily in excess of 500 lbs / 225 kgs, even floating out a moose quarter and partial buffalo kills. The boats aren’t maneuverable when so heavily laden. In testing, we have put four men in an Explorer, for an estimated 700+ lb. load… it floated, but it wasn’t “nimble.” Thus far, we have not seen any loading/pressure-related structural failures, even on boats subjected to waterfall drops, overloading, swamping in ocean surf, and “mystery moves” (being held totally underwater). However, that doe
