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Re: Other: seat comfort
By:Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks
Date: 8/9/2017, 9:01 pm
In Response To: Re: Other: Rank Your Top 5 Kayak Design Characteri (Jay Babina)

If the paddler is comfortable (seat / back band) they will buy it.

This is very true. If you look at main-line kayak manufacturers now, you will see that their seats have a lot of fancy quick adjustments with ratchets and quick releases etc. They tend to be ergonomic horror shows as far as efficient paddling, but they allow the salesman or customer to quickly and easily get the seat Lazy-Boy comfortable and make the sale.

Note, that once you have your seat adjusted you may never need to adjust it again, so all those fancy gewgaws for quick adjustment just become excess weight and potential failure points as the mild steel parts rust away after their first exposure to salt water.

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Other: Rank Your Top 5 Kayak Design Characteristics
Nonprophet -- 8/9/2017, 2:43 pm
Re: Other: Rank Your Top 5 Kayak Design Characteri
bob borovicka -- 8/9/2017, 4:07 pm
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KSARZE -- 8/9/2017, 4:36 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 8/9/2017, 5:55 pm
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Ken Blanton -- 8/9/2017, 6:20 pm
Re: Other: Rank Your Top 5 Kayak Design Characteri
Jay Babina -- 8/9/2017, 6:54 pm
Re: Other: Rank Your Top 5 Kayak Design Characteri
Alex Ferguson -- 8/9/2017, 7:02 pm
Re: Other: seat comfort
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/9/2017, 9:01 pm
Re: Other: seat comfort
M A Bielski -- 8/10/2017, 11:25 pm
Re: Other: seat comfort
Curtis Fisher -- 8/11/2017, 6:15 pm
Re: Other: seat comfort
M A Bielski -- 8/12/2017, 2:44 pm
Re: Other: seat comfort
Curtis Fisher -- 8/12/2017, 5:58 pm
Re: Other: seat comfort
M A Bielski -- 8/14/2017, 12:22 am
Re: Other: seat comfort
rickdo -- 8/17/2017, 3:24 am
Re: Other: Rank Your Top 5 Kayak Design Characteri
Bill Hamm -- 8/10/2017, 12:22 am
Re: Other: Rank Your Top 5 Kayak Design Characteri
Etienne Muller -- 8/10/2017, 3:11 am
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Justin -- 8/10/2017, 4:24 am
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Mark N -- 8/10/2017, 8:22 am
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KSARZE -- 8/10/2017, 2:24 pm
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Rich D -- 8/10/2017, 2:22 pm
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M A Bielski -- 8/10/2017, 11:21 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/11/2017, 1:30 am
Re: Other: Rank Your Top 5 Kayak Design Characteri
Etienne Muller -- 8/11/2017, 5:03 am
Re: Other: Rank Your Top 5 Kayak Design Characteri
Justin -- 8/11/2017, 6:55 am
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Etienne Muller -- 8/11/2017, 6:14 pm