: , also
: I have to find a better way to mount my seat, since the Tuff Stuff foam I
: used under my seat to conform to my haul shape had a very slow reaction to
: the epoxy I put on that I glued velcro to it. A month later it had
: distorted.

Get a rigid piece of foam -- expanded styrene from a crafts store, or building insulation from the home center.

Cut a chunk to the width of your seat.

use some rubber cememt sparingly to glue a 9x12 sheet of 80 grit or 100 grit sandpaper to the bottom of your boat. The cement will force the sandpaper to conform to the exact shape of the hull.

Grab the block of foam and move it back and forth over the sand paper, pushing gently. Try to keep it going in a straight line. The coarse sandpaper will cheww through that foam in minutes, if not seconds, and the foam will rapidly be shaped to fit the bottom of the hull exactly.

Peel off the sandpaper and glue it to the bottom of your kayak seat. Take the block of foam and repeat the process, rubbing to and fro until the foam is shaped to be a perfect match for the seatbottom.

A construction cement that is labeled to be safe for use with styrene foams will hold the foam block to the bottom of tthe kayak seat, and you cna use the same adhesive to hold the hook parts of the velcro to the bottom of the foam pad. The softer loop part of the velcro is glued to the bottom of your boat. That way if your seat comes loose you won't have to sit on the annoying stiff velcro.

Hope this helps.

If you come through the Chicago area on your way to Minnesota, wave. Maybe I'll see the sunlight glinting off that highly polished "haul"

PGJ