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Built to withstand the wilds of Alaska
Since the early 1950s the name Gary King has been known as the supplier of the finest quality in Alaska outdoor gear. Our Alaska Series Inflatable Boats, River Rafts, Tenders, Dinghies, Catarafts, Inflatable canoes and Kayaks are the finest quality that you will find anywhere. And all of our products are built Alaska tough and guaranteed to handle the rigors of even the toughest Alaska outdoor adventure or where ever your adventure takes you.
Fabrics:
We call the fabric used in the Alaska Series® Inflatable boats Grizzly Hide® This grizzly tough fabric’s best properties are: being Air tight, very tear resistant, very slippery when sliding over rocks, very abrasion resistant, very UV resistant, oil and gas resistant, excellent adhesion strength and the adhesion strength of the seams is not effected by the heat of the sun.
The Base cloth is Decitex; this is a high tenacity and low stretch polyester cloth. This is coated with a Plastomer that is a blend of plastic polymers, which include PVC, Polyurethane, UV inhibitors and others. The fabric is coated using the Sol-Type coating method. This method permeates the Decitex core fabric with the Plastomer so that it not only bonds to the core fabric, it also bonds to it’s self through the weave of the core fabric. This method of coating gives far better adhesion strength then laminated fabrics such as Hypalon® and some other PVC boat fabrics.
The Grizzly Hide fabric also meets all the same DIN 53354 standards as Hypalon® this DIN standard tests for weathering, abrasion, sea-water, ozone resistance, color-fastness and aging stability. It also meets the DIN 54004, 53352, 53356 and 53357 standards that cover UV resistance adhesion strength and temperature extremes from –40C to +70C
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