This raft may be able to hold the weight of (4) people but it will not seat (4) people. The raft is decent enough for what I paid but I was planning on taking (4) people in it. We were only able to get (2) in. The product is made well and should last severl trips, we went rafting down a shallow river and scrapped the bottom (rocks) several times, and the raft did not puncture. The oars are poorly made. It comes with (4), not sure why as you can not get (4) people in it, and I had one of them break as I was putting it together. Overall it was a good purchase for (2) people to float down the river. Sevylor Colossus 4-Person Inflatable Boat
advertised as a 4 person boat/raft. don't believe it. picture on the box shows 2 adults and two children. they must be lilliputians. no way is this a 4 person raft unless you use it as a toy in the pool. don't try to take 4 humans down the river in it! the coleman pump is excellent!
excellent boat, but if you are a big guy, don't count on rowing from the middle support, it won't hold you. also, it would actually be better if it had ONE set of oars, as the placement of the two are too far to the front and back respectively. otherwise, we like the boat and both fit in it with our 3 year old quite comfortably.
I have never had an inflatable boat before and the overall impression is that I will probably never want to have one again. The boat is very difficult and inconvenient to maneuver with the oars provided. Sitting in the boat is hardly called sitting, more like laying on the floor. "4 person" advertisement should be changed to "4 midgets". In the end we decided to use the boat as an inflatable mattress. The only thing it seems to be good for.
I bought this boat recently. Its great for two and very very tight for four. The only complaint I have is with the oars, every single one has snapped in half in the first two weeks of use. However if you could find more oars I would get this boat.
For the price; I didn't expect to get an actual 4 person boat. But, for the price, you get a nice little inflatable that is fine for goofing about in a lake, a pool, or a very slow river. 4 of the Munchkins might fit in this boat, but not 4 adults, no way.
Still, if you just wanted to do some lazy floating down a river, with no dangerous rapids; there is room for you and your lady, and maybe a small cooler of drinks.
It's hard to steer; but two people , using one paddle each, that can figure out how to work together can make it go where you want to go. It's really hard to paddle against even a weak current. If you aren't real vigilant, you just wind up spinning round in circles.
Me and my 3 grandkids enjoyed it, we were at a slow moving river which had a tiny rapid, so we'd float down the rapid, pick it up (one person can carry it) go back up the river a ways, and float back down the little rapid again. Also it was useful as a base for the kids to swim to when they got tired. The rope around it makes it easy to grab hold and catch your breath.
I wouldn't want to be in a Real serious river with serious rapids and boulders, because you just can't maneuver it good enough to stay out of trouble. You would be foolish to try going down a fast river in this.
But it's fine for the price, you gets what you pays for, ya know?
Actually we purchased this to use in a 50K-gallon water tank. Our overflow pipe needed to be cut down a few inches and rather than empty the whole tank we dropped it through the hatch, filled it with a cordless Ryobi wet/vac and then floated over with all the tools necessary to cut the pipe. The boat was vary stable and easy to work out of and had plenty of places to tie off tools to. If it worked well for our tank I wouldn't have any issues taking it out on a real lake. - Inflatable Boat - Inflatable Sailboat'
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