Float Tube Fishing Forum E-Zine Volume 7: Issue 4: | Page 5

Again it looked fine so I decided to take it out for a trip.  It held great and I was confident I did it this time until once again it was losing air.  This time the leak had found its way out on the top side of the

original patch job.  WTH!  I thought about

this for a little while then realized where

my mistake was.  This was not because of

a poor patch job or the D-Ring I was

using.  The issue was that I did NOT

deflate the tube before applying the

patch.  

Now before you start tell me how

stupid could you be, remember this was

my first time patch up a leak in a tube.  I

was over confident in the ease of

patching a leak on a hybrid float tube.  We

all learn from mistakes and I now know

what I did wrong.  After realizing this I did

fix it by deflating it and adding glue all

around the edges of the D-Ring Patch.  It

looks bad but it is holding just fine now.  I

am writing this to let you know that these

are easy tubes to fix but you still have to do specific things to make sure they seal right.  I will go through the basics steps of repairing a hybrid float tube in the next article found on page 23 of this E-Zine Issue. 

By: J. Bernier