Re: [Paddlewise] sliding seats

Matt:  The sliding seat is an excellent innovation.  What a great way to
change the balance of the boat as you need to.

I believe it was a Mariner II.  You might even know the boat, it was the one
George Gronseth uses.  I used this boat in his Highwinds training course in
the Colubia River Gorge, and again in his Deception Pass tidal currents
training.

I was scooting and struggling with it and only managed to get the seat to
shift slightly.  I was also paddling a Capella in that course and since I
wasn't spending all day with it, gave up on it.  I looked down at the slide
wondering why it was all jammed up, but abandoned the thought of working
with it since there was much else to be doing... like keeping up with the
class.

That's the sum of my experience.  George obviously hadn't a problem with it,
or he would have either called you or fixed it himeslf.  Your presumption of
operator error could indeed be correct.

Robert    

> From: Matt Broze <mkayaks_at_oz.net>
> Organization: Mariner Kayaks
> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 03:48:25 -0700
> To: Paddlewise <PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net>
> Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] sliding seats
> 
> Robert, please let me know how the sand and grit stopped the sliding seat
> you were using. I suspect you hadn't learned how to slide it yet during your
> tryout. I have been paddling sliding seat kayaks for more years than I'd
> like to admit. Sometimes when playing in the surf a steep shore break can
> dump lots of sand and grit in the cockpit once I've popped my spraydeck to
> exit but in all these years I have never not been able to slide the seat
> because of sand or grit even once. I have also never had anyone else tell me
> it has happened to them either until just now.

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