What Is A Drop Stitch Floor

Drop stitch fabric drop stitch fabric construction is what allows an inflatable sup to maintain its shape when it is inflated to high pressure.

What is a drop stitch floor.

Drop stitch a high tech material that lets us build new innovative inflatables that are stretching boating world boundaries. The rigidform drop stitch floor. Drop stitch construction allows you to have a rectangular shape and a much more rigid floor and it allows you to have shapes that were never possible in an inflatable boat. The term drop stitch is a method of construction which allows for much higher inflation and pressures than a standard pvc floor.

If you re looking to pack and go drop stitch is the way to go. 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. About drop stitch floor technology. 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. At the moment drop stitch technology for inflatable watercraft is fairly new. This is definitely not ideal for people with limited space capacity. Without drop stitch the board would bulge out in the middle like an over inflated air mattress.

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. When the air pressure goes up and the board wants to go round the stitches hold the flat shape. Where the laminations glue on the drop stitch let go. In one circumstance this happened to a floor for a dragonfly and to 2 other 14 ft.

As shown in our inflatable standup paddle boards drop stitch technology allows us to create high pressure forms that are extremely rigid. Rafts that was used for 20 years in new zealand for the us fish and wildlife service and a university rental program. 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. The drop stitch floor rolls up with the boat saving you precious cargo space.

In a standard pvc floor as shown above long i beams run the length of the floor connecting the floor ceiling to bottom. A bubble formed and the floor failed.