Assembling A Folding PortaBote In Four Minutes

In this followtheboat clip we assemble a PortaBote, which is our new tender for our sail boat. PortaBote has been around for 30 years. It is an American company with a strong heritage in manufacturing folding boats for the marine and fishing markets. The beauty of the PortaBote is its simplicity. It is constructed of five sheets of polypropylene, with four making up the chined hull and the fifth making the transom. The joins are sealed, riveted and then sheathed in a hard-wearing black plastic tube. It comes in four sizes (8ft, 10ft, 12ft and 14ft) and three different colours but it was the idea that it could fold in on itself and pack flat at just 10cm thick that really appealed to us a liveaboards. That and the fact it's unsinkable, almost indestructible and, best of all, we could throw away the puncture repair kit!

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[spannerheadz]

Since posting this video up Roger at IntraMore emailed to recommend the same thing. I will try this next time! Thanks for the heads up.

[sheetmetalmaster]

I always drop the transom in first, doing so will lock the bote open without the worry of it closing