A packraft is the hull you carry. Rolled, it rides on your pack. At the water you inflate it, paddle, roll it up again and walk out.
That is the whole idea. Water you can walk to, with everything on your back. Seeka makes three of them.
The walk is the point
A packraft comes into its own when the water is not beside the car. A track to a lake. A walk along an inlet. An easy river after a morning on foot. The packraft sits in the pack with the rest of your kit, and the day is yours to shape, not the ramp's.
Seeka packrafts are built for exactly that pattern: walk, inflate, paddle, pack. Bike, hunt, fish, hike, always with the walk in mind.
They are built for lakes, inlets and easy rivers. Bigger, faster or more exposed water calls for a different craft, and no packraft makes exposed water safe. What it does is make a calm stretch reachable after a walk.
Two states: pack and water
On the trail it is fabric, rolled with the rest of the load, riding on your back. On the water it is a small inflatable hull with room to sit in, paddled with a paddle you also carried in.
Both have to be true. A hull that cannot live in a pack is not doing the packraft job.
Two things a packraft is not
A hardshell is a rigid hull. It paddles fast, it tracks straight, and it lives on a roof rack or in a shed. You drive it to a put-in. You do not walk it over a ridge.
A packraft is the other trade. It gives up speed and edge for the ability to disappear into a pack until you need it. On the water it is slower and softer. On the trail it is the one you can carry.
If your days start where you park and end at the same ramp, a hardshell may serve you better. If your days start on a track, a packraft belongs in the pack. Different tools, different days. Seeka makes packrafts and calls them that.
Inflatable kayaks, especially drop-stitch ones, are a different product again. Drop-stitch runs a dense web of threads between fabric layers so the floor, and often the hull, pumps up firm. Most are shaped to paddle from a car: inflate at the ramp, paddle, deflate, back in the boot. Packed, they are bulky.
A packraft is short, open and built around the pack. You sit in a fabric hull on inflated tubes, and you carry it as trail weight rather than boot cargo. Some inflatable kayaks are excellent on flat water if you never walk far. That is a different brief from ours.
Cloth, colour, self-bail
Every Seeka has heavy duty, ultra lite weight tubes over an 840D floor. Yellow with black trim, the Seeka logo welded on.
All three, the Seeka Solo, Seeka Tourer and Seeka Duo, self-bail. Water that comes over the tube drains straight back out through the floor, so you sit in a wet packraft, never a full one.
Two years on materials and welding, from the day it lands on your doorstep. The Solo is 2.4 kg, the Tourer 3.65 kg and the Duo 5.8 kg, with full dimensions on each product page.
An Australian packraft
Seeka is an Australian brand, designed and tested in Australia and made to be explored across the world. Every order ships by tracked express to Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, the UK and Europe, dispatched within two weeks and at your door in about three. Shipping is shown before you pay.
If you already know you want a packraft that packs, walks and paddles calm water, you know which brand you are looking at.
Every Seeka self-bails and carries a two-year warranty on materials and welding. Or hire one for a weekend first.