Raft Storage in Whitewater Rafting

Video Transcript

"Storing a raft can be a little problematic for some people; some people don’t have the room to keep the raft inflated. One of the best ways to store a raft is to have it semi-inflated, letting a little air out of all the tubes. You want to clean the raft before you put it away for the season at least. A nice 303 helps keep the raft supple, protects it from the sun, sets the raft up ready for the following year. You also want to make sure there’s not water in the raft or any water on the raft. So one of the ways you can dry off the raft is just sprinkle baby powder or cornstarch around the interior of the raft. If the raft is going to be stored somewhere where it will freeze the rubber can stick together and actually peel apart and damage the raft when you get it out in the spring. So drying out the raft completely is the way to go. Storing it like this, wrapped up is fine as long as you know it’s clean and dry and then rafts tend to be habitats for a lot of rodents so you want to make sure that you have it clean and dry and then stored in a place that mice can’t get to it, and/or protect it from the mice in whichever way you’re comfortable doing so. Otherwise you’ll come out in the spring, open up your raft and find holes and whole communities of mice living inside your raft and then you have a whole new problem to deal with. "