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Re: Other: Redfish Seats
By:Howard H
Date: 8/29/2009, 2:12 pm
In Response To: Re: Other: Redfish Seats *LINK* *Pic* (Scott Fitzgerrell)

Hi Scott -
How did you make the high seat back for your wife's kayak? My wife would also appreciate a high back and I have not been able to find a design that can combine with the Redfish pre-sculpted seat.

Also, does your wife find the pre-sculpted seat high enough? Did you have to raise the foam seat at all?

Any suggestions that you have would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Howard

: I have one of Joe's seats in my Shooting Star, and a seat I made from his
: sculpted blank in my wife's Storm SLT (photo b'lo). She needed a high seat
: back for her cranky back, so the semi-custom route proved best. On long
: paddles in the SS I have no problem with Joe's seat, which has a very low
: back (see link), whereas I used to have dead legs with the stock air-mat
: seat in my Coho. On the Coho, I angled the seat bottom a lot by inserting
: a wedge of camping mat under its front edge. That helped a lot, as did
: extending the mat a bit under my thighs. All that said, however, you can't
: go wrong with one of Joe's seats.

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Other: Redfish Seats
Kudzu -- 11/1/2008, 10:49 pm
Re: Other: Redfish Seats *Pic*
Etienne Muller -- 11/3/2008, 11:35 am
Re: Other: Redfish Seats
george jung -- 8/29/2009, 3:41 pm
Re: Other: Redfish Seats
Rob Macks -- 11/3/2008, 4:13 pm
Re: Other: Redfish Seats *LINK* *Pic*
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 11/2/2008, 5:16 pm
Re: Other: Redfish Seats
Howard H -- 8/29/2009, 2:12 pm
Re: Other: Redfish Seats *LINK* *Pic*
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 8/30/2009, 2:51 am
Re: Other: Redfish Seats
george jung -- 8/30/2009, 10:57 pm
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Scott Fitzgerrell -- 8/31/2009, 11:04 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/29/2009, 7:00 pm
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Bob Brownie -- 11/2/2008, 4:39 pm
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Kudzu -- 11/2/2008, 5:20 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/5/2008, 12:44 pm
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charlie r -- 11/2/2008, 7:49 pm
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BobKayes -- 11/2/2008, 6:39 am
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Roy Morford -- 11/2/2008, 11:47 am
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David Sunshine -- 11/2/2008, 12:01 pm
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Reg Lake -- 11/2/2008, 2:11 am
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Dennis -- 11/1/2008, 11:30 pm
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Randy Ricchi -- 11/1/2008, 11:26 pm