What seat

[Gilly111]

Hi guys my wife has a bad back but loves coming out on the sib iv a honwave T35 question is can you buy some sort of seat for her to sit on or will I have to adapt one thanks Neil

[Poly]

It probably depends a bit on what hurts her back, but in general sib seats (basically a bench) don’t encourage good posture, aren’t comfortable and provide no back support.

The tubes are the obvious place to sit with some cushioning but encourage a twisting of your back. Before suspension seats (which are clearly ridiculous for a T35) people generally preferred jockey seats for protecting backs. The idea being you use your legs to cushion the ride. To get the maximum benefit for that you need a solid handhold at roughly chest height in front of you.

In terms of DIY, improvised solutions potentially providing similar benefits in a sib I wonder if kneeling (on some thick foam for comfort and padding) astride some sort of inflatable sausage in the sort of position used in a Canadian canoe would help.? Not sure if the lifelines would provide useful handholds.?

[paintman]

I'm presuming you have the fibreglass bench seat?
Wonder if it would be possible to use one of the type of clamp on seats used by trout anglers? Usually clamped onto a thwart board for trout fishing but I can't see any reason why it couldn't go on the Honwave seat - other than possibly it might put her a bit too high.
This sort of thing:
https://www.anglingactive.co.uk/airf...boat-seat.html

[Fenlander]

You are lucky with the Honwave T35 that its existing bench is very robust and it has an alloy floor. So the bench would take mods such as adding a seat or you could remove the bench and make up an arrangement that was bolted directly to the floor.

Is it cushioning against shocks she needs... a backrest... side support... or something else?

For example would this bolted to the existing bench do?

https://www.marinescene.co.uk/produc...CABEgLCdfD_BwE

[Gilly111]

Thanks chaps plenty of food for thought