You have such a way with words......

Given their is no PVC on this channel.... your articulate comment is much appreciated.

@@XsribsInflatableBoats Hypalon is black on the inside and colored on the outside. The boat in the video uses PVC. Don't try to fool people.

Ah you are back....At what level can you not understand what is in front of you, The Boat in the video is Polyurethane (PU), it does not pretend to be anything else, we offer PU or Hypalon at new build on all our craft, this owner chose a NEW TUBE in PU. If you are going to make offensive insulting comments get your facts right, people like you epitomise all that is wrong with the internet, ignorant people spouting rubbish that they do not understand. We have built boats in PU (NOT PVC , look up the difference as you clearly do not know) for 40 years, we do not use and never have done PVC for tubes and by the way your comments are offensive to the millions of people who do buy PVC ribs, it is not crap and provides boats at a price point people can afford, the majority of Zodiacs (The Brand) made under 6 m are PVC and they are not crap, not as good as some other fabrics but not crap. Key board warriors, the plague of the internet, to be [wrong and] offensive is not a right to free speech it is just ignorance and stupidity.

What you are describing is called a Skiver, a machine invented 150 years ago to thin the edge of leather in the shoe making trade. When gluing the bond is achieved at a molecular level by the glue passing through the surface of the fabric to the core weave. Boat fabric is a 3 ply thing with THIN layers of PU or Hypalon / Neoprene applied to the "inside and outside" of the core weave material. The Core weave material is 80% of the overall thickness of boat fabric. To make the edge flush you take off the inside coating layer and the core fabric. When welded you get a smooth edge, this is how we do the seams on a XS, we use a 60 year old, ex shoe makers skiver, take off the inside PU coating and the core weave leaving just the outside coating. If you glue a skived edge the surface to surface bond of just one coating layer is not strong and the edges peel up as soon as it is in sunlight. Welded PU like this has a smooth seam and is incredibly strong, on this channel in our How to Make a Boat Video we show the welding process and the seam it gives. Hypalon / Neoprene is a much softer material and as you can not weld it, and gluing the soft skived edge is almost impossible, this system is not used with Hypalon.

In the UK we sell it, outside the UK I can not help, sorry

We use a good quality Drapers Shear, widely available on line, nothing special

No it has to be glued only

We expect our craft to have an operational life of 20 years, foam does not last that long and given the hull is a sealed void. where no significant quantity of water can enter, there is no advantage in putting foam in there. Often foam is used to lighten the lay up by bulking out the internals to add strength. Any one who has any experience of a soggy "Del Quay" boat will understand why we do not use foam !

@@XsribsInflatableBoats thank you for explaining 🙏

Many thanks for all the kind words re the guys who do the work, they appreciate the comments.

Low surface area compared to the volume and we thin it slightly

The Glue is Bostik 2402

In the voice over we explain you ACETONE only on PU and only sandpaper / grind Hypalon so not quite sure what point you are making that is not in the video ?

That is death of Most old Inflatables and gluing old previously glued fabric is notoriously difficult. even more so with PVC, If that job was brought to us we would decline to do as we know with 35 years experience it will be virtually impossible to do and even if it takes will not last, sorry to be so dismal about it.

@@XsribsInflatableBoats yes good to know, I was thinking have opened up a seem so I can get inside and use screws as well as glue to fix it back on. Then seal patches from inside so no leaks and reseal seam be a more lasting solution. I just don't know which glue to use that I can get easily in Australia? Thanks

@@MrRobinski I have no idea what is avaialable but for sure screwing it will NEVER work.... the glue will fail and the tubes will pull on the screws and leak

Not sure all that detail is on the TDS !

Surface area, needs to be in contact with air so the volume of glue is deep in the pot but also a bit of trickery with the camera as whilst the same pot newly mixed glue all the time

All the pricing can be seen at yamahamercuryoutboardprice.ecwid.com/XS-Fibreglass-PRAM-Dinghy-2-m-p56584575