Bakerview Boats are available as:
- Rigid Inflatable Boats (RIB’s), which have a hard aluminum hull and inflatable tubes
- Roll Up portable/stowable boats with soft bottoms: slat, plywood, aluminum, or airmat (also called airdeck) floors
We use a 5-layer reinforced top quality 1.100 dtex PVC material with a weight of 1.050g/m2 and a thickness of 0.9 mm. Larger boats have a 5-layer reinforced high quality 1.100 dtex PVC material with a weight of 1.500g/m2 and a thickness of 1.2 mm. Our CSM Hypalon™ coated material (Hypatex™) is more resistant than PVC toward UV light, acid, alkali, saltwater, heat and cold. Hypatex is one of the best materials available today with a 60 year history. All makes of CSM/Hypalon boats are always glued. All makes using any material always have to be glued to the aluminum hull.
We also glue our PVC boats. Heat welding is cheaper and lighter, take less time to manufacture, and can be assembled in the Chinese heat and humidity, but our glued boats will last longer. Here’s why. There are two main factors affecting the life of PVC boats. Exposure to UV light and over-pressure. First lets address UV exposure. While tremendous progress has been made in stabilizing the PVC materials against UV light with advances in the chemical stabilizers and the accuracy of the measurement and mixing of the liquid PVC, we recommend covering the boats when not in use and applying 303 Protectant every spring. The second factor, over-pressure, happens routinely through heat primarily from the sun. This over-pressure creates undue stress on the material and the seams.
Advantage: Glue. PVC tubes are made of layers of material sandwiched together with liquid PVC. When this is welded together the over-lap becomes one layer and when stress separates that seam it will always separate at one side along the material making repairs harder to do and less effective. A glued seam will always separate along the glue line and is much easier and more effective to maintain.
All our boats feature an over-pressure valve as standard equipment that will protect your tubes when inflated properly. The secret here is we install extra material at the air chamber dams – the dividers between the air chambers. Then when the air chamber with the pressure relief valve is inflated first, the air dams expand into the adjoining chambers. As the adjoining chambers are inflated, they come to pressure with their volume reduced by that initial air chamber expansion. As those adjoining chambers then gain pressure and expand from heat they have the air dam(s) to push against and as they do the excess pressure bleeds off of the pressure relief valve and the pressure in all the chambers equalizes.
High quality materials paired with constant research & development are the key. Every single Bakerview Boat passes a strict quality control process before we deliver it to our valued customers. With our high level of standard equipment, and our modern European Design, Bakerview Boats are world class quality. Bakerview Boats are suitable for all kinds of watersports: waterskiing, cruising, SCUBA diving, fishing or as a yacht tender.