repacked my raft in his living room a couple of years ago. I was back from Mexico and still living on the boat so we used his place. He had done his prior so I also used his experience. In retrospect, it was so easy I almost feel like I imposed on his hospitality. We found that two of the packages of water that were included in the original packing had burst. We cleaned up the mess and decided that no real damage had been done so during the repack we left out all of the water and didn't replace the batteries or flashlights. I now keep the water, flashlights, batteries and other stuff in the ditch bag along with the EPIRB. It's easy to repack a raft and you get to save a bunch of money.