What Is A Drop Stitch Floor

This is definitely not ideal for people with limited space capacity.

What is a drop stitch floor. A bubble formed and the floor failed. When the air pressure goes up and the board wants to go round the stitches hold the flat shape. The image above shows a low pressure 1 psi pvc floor on the bottom versus a 4 6 psi drop stitch high pressure floor. The drop stitch floor rolls up with the boat saving you precious cargo space.

This sevelor drop stitch paddle board shows the same defect. In one circumstance this happened to a floor for a dragonfly and to 2 other 14 ft. Drop stitch fabric drop stitch fabric construction is what allows an inflatable sup to maintain its shape when it is inflated to high pressure. Drop stitch is basically a technique of running thousands of stitches from the top to the bottom of the board all at the same fixed length.

If you re looking to pack and go drop stitch is the way to go. Where the laminations glue on the drop stitch let go. It is used for inflatable stand up paddle boards and some manufacturers of high end inflatable kayaks like advanced elements offer drop stitch floors which replace the original floor to create a more rigid hull. In a standard pvc floor as shown above long i beams run the length of the floor connecting the floor ceiling to bottom.

Once a drop stitch floor is placed within the kayak it creates a hull with chine which is what enhances the tracking and hull speed. The rigidform drop stitch floor. Drop stitch a high tech material that lets us build new innovative inflatables that are stretching boating world boundaries. At the moment drop stitch technology for inflatable watercraft is fairly new.

Without drop stitch the board would bulge out in the middle like an over inflated air mattress. As shown in our inflatable standup paddle boards drop stitch technology allows us to create high pressure forms that are extremely rigid. Aquaglide blackfoot 125 angler hb for 1 2 paddlers this is further illustrated in the image above showing an aquaglide blackfoot 125 hb inflatable fishing kayak which is 6 psi for the floor and 3 psi on the side walls. A plastic floorboard will gobble up another 40 x 36 x4 of valuable storage space.

It s created by thousands of little threads that go from the top of the material to the bottom of the material and it s also what allows you to put an external keel on the outside of the kayak. About drop stitch floor technology.