Thanks for all you kind comments above.
It was 3 months of one hell of a lot of behind the scenes communications, and quite a few hours of lost sleep worrying about what might happen.
I'm so pleased that it went exactly to plan.
Thanks to Stuart and Dave B from these parts for there talks and demo's, you made a great difference to our evening entertainment even though not everyone was a cyclist or camper, but as I'd hoped it really put it over to the rest that cycling and camping can be used in association with pack rafting.
Although they won't see this I couldn't have done any of this weekend without the following
Jason Taylor from Tirio with his team of expert trainers and range of Kokopelli pack rafts
https://www.tirio.co.uk/
Andy Toop from
https://backcountry.scot/ with his range of Aplaca pack rafts
And to be honest after looking at all the different brands and rafts on show the best pack raft IHMO to carry bikes and loads is still the Alpaca Caribou
https://backcountry.scot/product/alpacka-raft-caribou/
Tim Clark from Longshore International
https://www.longshoreinternational.com/packrafts
Sven and Thomas who came over from German from
https://www.packrafting.de/ with their range of Anfibio packrafts.
Gordon Stoving for his Sourdough baking talk and his very entertaining and high alcoholic content beer tasting session.
I didn't have much chance to take my normal amount of photos but here's a quick clip to show the set up of the pack rafts at the bike pack rafting session ran by Andy and helped be me a little
https://youtu.be/5oS0gu25XPA
Oh yeh I also shook hands while drunk with Sven from Packrafting.de for a really silly deal on a couple of pack rafts and some accessories
If anyone is interested in my pile of pack rafts, like bikes they all have different jobs.
Top pack raft - Anfibio Nano SL which with it's seat backrest and new lightweight paddle weighs in at just 1729 grams.
Blue packraft - Kokopelli Recon is a super tough heavy duty and large pack sized white water self bailing pack raft.
Grey packraft - My first and still the best bike carrying packraft, the Alpaca Caribou from Andy at Backcountry*.
Green packraft - MRS Nomad S1 for longer faster paddles and calm(ish) sea crossings
The same pack rafts from left to right is the same as the above photo from top to bottom.
Left pack raft - Anfibio Nano SL
2nd left pack raft - Kokopelli Recon
3rd left packraft - Alpaca Caribou
Right hand packraft - MRS Nomad S1
It just shows the different types and jobs that pack rafts do
Yes I'm now a pack raft nerd
The 3 things I got out of this
1) Getting 65 like minded people from different hobbies together and all getting on together.
2) Getting Jeff Price on his first packraft and seeing his face light up when he realised how stable they were (Jeff can't swim and is scared of water)
3) When getting home the wife saying to me "I really want to have a go on a pack raft"
* If you want an Alpaca bike carrying Caribou but can't afford it, please message me and I'll ask Andy to give you the same 6 month interest free deal that he gave me. He does not advertise this on his website.