[Paddlewise] Seat fabrication AAARGH

Hi:

I'm midway through my "build-my-own-seat-from-minicell" project, and in
high annoyance.

I've had minimal luck sculpting the foam on the bottom of the seat to
actually *fit* my boat's hull. We followed the instructions given at the
(wonderful) kayakfit.com website, but tiny variations are making life
hellish. Is there any easy way to do this, or am I doomed to just getting
it as close as possible and coping?

We used a flex curve to measure the hull of the boat, and found that the
flex curve's plastic ends introduced problematic variations in the flex.
We then tried solder, with the same problem; you just can't get the bloody
thing to actually *form to the hull* without it "rebounding" a bit when
you take it off. Subsequently, you wind up with variance in your cardboard
templates.

What I'd dearly love to be able to do would be put some sort of liquid
foam down that'd actually form to the hull, but I think that's out of
range. :>

Basically, I'll trim a little, and discover that not only have I not
corrected the previous poor fit, but introduced a new anomaly.

Thanks for any help/advice,

-ashton

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