Originally Posted by 79pmooney

That fabric is the stuff they make rafts from. Permanent repairs are easy to do. Get the stuff to repair rafts. For the full scoop on how to do it right, call any rafting outfit. As long it isn't high rafting season, they will happily walk you through the repair; the stuff to buy, where to get it and how to use it. They do this stuff all the time.

I put a very sharp kitchen knife through my 10-year old Ortleib. Bag is now 20 years old and I never even think about the repair. (I could still fill it with water and use it to cross the Sahara if I ever wanted to.)

Ben