According to Motorboating in the Guinness Book of World records, the history of inflatable boats dates back to 880 BC, when Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II ordered his troops to constantly inflate greased hides so that they could cross rivers! In ancient China, in the Song and Ming dynasties, people also used sealed and inflated animal skins to cross rivers. The main reason for the emergence of the assault boat is its speed

In 1839, after the Duke of Wellington made the first pontoon test of an inflatable boat, Englishman Thomas Hancock designed an inflatable raft in 1840 and published his work in the book The Origin and Progress of Rubber in England a few years later. In 1844, Halkett, a Navy captain, designed a wheel-shaped inflatable boat, which was used in many Arctic expeditions. The Frenchman Clement Ader also designed a floating ship. In fact, many other pioneers invented inflatable rafts, which heralded the birth of the "inflatable boat". In 1913, the German Albert Meyer came up with a rather novel design. By 1920, his company, Panax Bau Pneum. Boote, the marketing of his "gas" boats, nine of which were already in use in the German army, was gradually transformed into assault boats

In France and the United Kingdom, ZODIAC and RFD introduced modern rubber boats. In 1919, Ray Foster Dagnall, the founder of RFD, tested a rubber boat on Lake Wisely in the United Kingdom and refined his design in the 1930s. This was the beginning of a later inflatable life raft. In 1934 in France, Pierre Debroutelle designed a prototype inflatable boat.

The first modern rubber boats were used in the French navy, and the ZODIAC development model led to a rapid development of the civilian and rubber boat industry. In contrast,

Pierre Debroutelle designed the first U-shaped rubber boat in 1937, and he applied for a patent for the design on August 10, 1943. This is also the direct version of the sport and entertainment type inflatable boat until today!

Since then many new manufacturers, new models and new designs have been brought to market. Inflatable boats are no longer small rubber boats on the back of a big yacht! It can be 45 feet long or more! "Rigid" fiberglass hulls and aluminum hulls have gradually replaced the original inflatable bottoms! Beautiful decorative parts and even the boathouse appear on the rubber boat. Corresponding to its name is that today, inflatable boats, often just refer to the boat's buoy is inflatable, and the bottom of the boat may be fiberglass and aluminum, but anyway, inflatable boats have always existed, and become more and more popular with people!

There are many kinds of rubber boats, different models, there are high-speed boats dedicated to the pursuit of speed, there are completely manual kayaks, there are rafting boats to experience the fun of whitewater, there are simple work, there are fishing boats for offshore fishing and so on.