>Peter van den Hurk wrote: > >> 2) Yesterday I did a great trip to Anclote Keys (near Tampa, FL) in an >> Eddyline Falcon 18. Such a nice boat! But, as I had noticed before in this >> boat, my legs and feet start getting numb after an hour. I have fiddled >> around with the footpegs, but that doesn't seem to help. I guess there is >> something in the seat design that pinches a nerve or artery, because I >> never have this problem in the Dagger Magellans I frequently use. Yesterday >> I tried sitting on a towel(couldn't find a piece of foam), to modify the >> seat mold. But that didn't help either; today my legs and feet still feel a >> little numb. Any suggestions for dealing with this problem? > >Alex has already chimed in with the ultimate solution: make a seat that fits >you. This will entail significant outfitting, and is best done by fitting a >minicell seat (custom carved to fit *your* tush) in lieu of the stock seat. > True, but the next best solution might be some sort of thin pad. Someone makes a thin gel-filled seat pad that might help. Alternatively, you might try a minimally-inflated seat-sized Therma-Rest pad on the seat. Bob Volin (a happy bum) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Nov 22 1999 - 20:17:50 PST
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