Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 15:12:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Kirk Olsen <kork@imagelan.com>
To: baidarka@imagelan.com
Subject: Re: Seat backs
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On Sun, 14 Jan 1996, neibrai wrote:
> Hey gang! This might sound a little masochistic, but the best seat back I
> ever made (comfort, light weight, strength) can be put together in
> minutes by dropping precut .25" ABS plastic sheet into boiling water and,
> when pliable, pressed onto small of back until pain stops. ABS has no
> memory, is extremely flexible and will not fail easily.
> No slouching allowed.
What do you attach the foam to in the kayak to make it a useful seat back?
Sure burn blisters will make you sit upright but that hardly seems
comfortable.
One baidarka that I've used had an interesting seat back. The backrest
was a wooden elipse, shaped nicely to fit the small of the back. The
back rest was mounted onto a dowel. The dowel fit into notches cut into
two side rails inside the cockpit. There were about 5 notches cut at
about 4 cm spacings. I liked this arrangement because you could adjust
the trim of the baidarka by moving the "seat" backwards or forwards.
This particular baidarka did not have foot rests and the seat bottom was
the floorboards.
kirk