At 10:17 AM 10/5/2000 -0500, 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? 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'm a canoe newbie so I'm pretty ignorant--does that make me a canoewbie?) > >Thanks! Mike, I have a We-no-nah Solo Plus 16. It is designed as a large single or light tandem. The center (single position) seat is just aft of the yoke pins. Meaning that the forward edge of the seat is in line with the trailing edge of where the detachable yoke is. The seat is actually dropped a little lower than the tandem seats while the forward edge of the seat is dropped 1 inch lower than the trailing edge. This is a very comfortable arrangement for solo paddling. It would seem that if the seat is forward of the old center yoke the stern may wander a bit in a breeze. Brgds, Jeff *************************************************************************** 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 - 12:04:02 PDT
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