Mike Wehrman wrote: > > A canoe store owner replaced my yoke with a center seat in my tandem.. At one > point during the installation, he got the bow and stern mixed up, so I'm > wondering if he got the center seat installed on the wrong side of the old > yoke position. He put it on the bow side of the old yoke position. Is this > correct, or is it just a matter of personal preference? The yoke was probably at the balance point of the canoe. Since he got bow and stern mixed up, I'm assuming the canoe is symmetrical, so which ever way you face can be the bow. If he drilled two new holes to bow side of the old yoke position (to save drilling more holes?), just sit on it backwards facing the former stern and go paddle. Someday, when you begin to care about such things, you might want to decide how you want the canoe trimmed and put the seat there. > Also, it is placed > just under the gunnel, while my other seats have long spacers. Should he have > used spacers to lower the seats the same depth as the bow and stern seats? I think so, yes. To do it right, the front edge of the seat (after you figure out which one that is), should be a little lower, so you can kneel more comfortably. You do kneel, right? ;) > (I'm a canoe newbie so I'm pretty ignorant--does that make me a canoewbie?) Steve (canewbie dewbie dew...) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Oct 05 2000 - 09:48:51 PDT
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