Doug's post reminded me of an earlier question asking what Maligiaq Padilla (sorry, didn't check the spelling but I think that's close) used for a backband in his skin boat. Never saw a response --- again, sorry if I missed one --- but I watched him carefully several times when he was getting in and out of that incredibly fine boat. There was no seat or backband in his kayak, but he had a roll of (nominally) half inch quilted foam, something like Ensolite, that he unrolled, placed in the area that a seat would be, and rolled the rest up and out onto the back deck. He slid into the boat over the foam on the deck, and then rolled it into the cockpit behind him, at least partly up against the vertical coaming ring, and leaned back against it. The after deck on his boat was very low, probably well below waist height, so there was no back or even lumbar support, although it appeared that he used it in leveraging some of his rolls. For what it's worth. Jack *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Jan 20 2000 - 04:49:25 PST
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