Having gone out in the Sib yesterday for about 4 hours sitting on the seat. With a padded seat cover I felt that I would like to be able to lean back at times.
I am going to give my Kayak seat a try if I can find a good way of fixing it.
Not keen on sitting on the Tubes
I was wondering if others use seats with backs on their Sibs.
I used to take a 1980's style alloy tubed fold up garden chair in my GRP dinghys, takes up no space folded and supports your back well. Using one in a sib would be fine with an alloy floor but with an air floor you would I think need to spread the load some.
I love my folding seats. Changed the foam in the bottom with 1.5” high grade foam. It comes with 1” cheap foam. Cover snaps off and fits the taller foam stack. I don’t have pic but here is a link to a video what shows it very well. I’ve posted this video before so skipping it might be best for most of you.
It straps onto the bench and you adjust the side straps to make the back more or less rigid.
Not the same as a fixed seat but provides enough back support to make multiple hours in the F-rib much more comfortable and folds flat so easy to store.
I actually use it when pic-nic'ing and stuff as well now.
It straps onto the bench and you adjust the side straps to make the back more or less rigid.
Not the same as a fixed seat but provides enough back support to make multiple hours in the F-rib much more comfortable and folds flat so easy to store.
I actually use it when pic-nic'ing and stuff as well now.
Cheers,
MM
Just ordered one looks like it might do the job. Thanks for the link
Surely for days when a backrest on a sib is the preferred option you just take another one of your flotilla?
Being slightly more serious (I don’t have a SIB - I have a RBB). I soon found a bench seat annoying. I ripped it out and fitted a jockey seat. As the boat and console are made from HDPE I used an HDPE water tank for the seat, then attached classic backrest acquired on here (two in fact). It strikes me that with some careful thought/design it might be possible to create a seat and console design which would open up so you could pack a sib inside it and it would become the carry case. Probably only possible with a hard floor sib to bolt to.
Surely for days when a backrest on a sib is the preferred option you just take another one of your flotilla?
Being slightly more serious (I don’t have a SIB - I have a RBB). I soon found a bench seat annoying. I ripped it out and fitted a jockey seat. As the boat and console are made from HDPE I used an HDPE water tank for the seat, then attached classic backrest acquired on here (two in fact). It strikes me that with some careful thought/design it might be possible to create a seat and console design which would open up so you could pack a sib inside it and it would become the carry case. Probably only possible with a hard floor sib to bolt to.
I tend to use the T38 when we go away in our caravan and we offten pootle up quite calm rivers. It is nice to have a back rest on those longish journeys and with no real chop to worry about it does not need to be a fixed down one. I think the one posted above will be fine and can also be used as a seat when you reach your pic nic spot
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