Inflatable Raingutter Regatta Raceway Review
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 9:46 am
Last night I demoed the inflatable Raingutter Regatta Raceway at our District's Cub Scout Roundtable Meeting. This thing is awesome! With a cheap hand pump from Wal-Mart like this one, I was able to inflate it in under 2 minutes. It takes about 7 gallons of water per lane (not 4 like it says on the box) to get the water deep enough. I had 14 one gallon jugs on hand. In all it took us about 10 minutes to have it fully set up. I ran some races with the adults to make sure that there were no problems with the track. Then we took it down. It has drain holes at one end. We set up rotating 5 gallon buckets to get rid of the water. The drains have zero side spill so all of the water goes into the bucket. After a quick towel dry, I deflated the track with the same hand pump. Teardown took about 15 minutes. All of this was done with no water spillage. This was $25 well spent. There was even one Pack that was talking about switching from their traditional gutters to this due to the ease of setup.