“The folding boats interest me but seem rather delicate? Maybe I’m wrong but I have zero experience with them”
Not. In. The. Least.
At least not the PortABote. I would be very surprised to hear of a hole being put in one. The plastic is a thick REALLY tough, flexable material, and the keel is a split piece of big plastic water pipe that you can replace ‘IF’ you could damage it enough to want to replace it.
I have drug mine of a fair distance of rocks loaded down. Even with the car a few times!