To: baidarka@imagelan.com
From: tigger.jvnc.net!guthman@imagelan.com (Mike Guthman)
Subject: Seat backs
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 07:58:08 est5edt
Message-Id: <guthman.360.000E24F9@tigger.jvnc.net>
Discussions of seats in kayaks is always good for some conversation. My
question deals with the various ways of rigging seat backs.
I'm close to finishing the frame on a Dyson 5.28 and am thinking about
installing seating fixtures prior to covering. I would like to begin the
conervation (but certainly not limit it to) two questions:
1. Has any rigged up a Feathercraft type seating arrangement in a
skin-on-frame boat? For those who have not seen a Feathercraft arrangement, it
is a nylon sling hung from the gunwales and anchored to stringers I or II. A
hindged seat bottom and back rests on the sling and is anchored in front to a
cross member on the floor and to the top of the deck beam immediately behind
the cocpit. I find it more comfortable than any kayak seat I've tried.
2. What other arrangements have people used and how satisfied are you with
them?
Thanks