[Public-List] Hiking seat

[Bill Wallace]

It is something I've been working on as I also like to sit further back and I don't really like just a flat board.  What I'm thinking of is one of the folding sports chairs mounted to 2 of the 1.5" L brackets - the solid metal kind, not the thinner ones.  Make a mounting on the back of the coaming for one end of each of the L brackets, and then you have a chair you can move from side to side.  Or, maybe just make 2 of them.  The bracket can be made from a section of 1.5" flat metal, about the same thickness as the L bracket material.  Requires a bunch of cutting, but no welding unless you want to weld it up.  More work to make in SS, so I figured I would try it first in plain steel and paint it, see if it works for a year or two.  

Bill.


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 From: Bill Boyle <wpb1210 at yahoo.com>
To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 2:15:00 PM
Subject: [Public-List] Hiking seat
 

I’ve been sailing my A30 now for the past summer.  Mainly day trips out of the Magathy and around the bay.     My roots in sailing go back to dingys and that meant hiking out and/or sitting on the rail using a hiking stick on the tiller.    I tried to do that on this boat but the coaming is quite hard on the butt!  I’ve looked at the pictures on the A30 site and tried to see if anyone had solved the problem.  I saw a few attempts but I was not satisfied with just a flat board attached to the coaming.  Does anyone have a solution for comfortably sitting on the rail as a sailing position?   If anyone has a picture of what they have done I would appreciate a copy at my email address.  wpb1210 at yahoo.com
 
Thanks,
 
Bill Boyle
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