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The Thin-Hull Test
How to judge an inflatable boat before you pay a deposit. The checks we would run ourselves, written by people who have been on the water rather than in a marketing meeting.
What's inside
- The one question to ask first — and why GSM and millimetres always travel together
- Where thin hulls actually fail, and why it is never dramatic
- Five checks to run before you pay a deposit
- The import bill that lands after you have already paid
- What the A$3k / A$3.5k–6k / A$7k+ price tiers actually mean
- Five questions to ask us, that we will answer straight
Why we give this away
Most people buying their first inflatable have no way to tell a ten-year hull from a three-year one, and the industry has not been in a hurry to explain the difference. So we wrote it down. If you read it and buy somewhere else with your eyes open, that is a better outcome than buying from us blind.
Our own position is on the record: 1500 GSM / 1.2 mm German VALMEX Heavy Plus on every Viper and Sovereign hull, 10–12 year fabric life, 7-year hull warranty. The AeroCat range is 1100 GSM / 0.9 mm and we say that on the page too.