![]() ![]() I am very thankful to you all for the input. If I can establish that, I can make the cockpit exactly where it needs to be to have the skirt fit in a relaxed way. Use the Seals database to determine the size of your kayaks cockpit. In any hull, I probably have 6-8 inches of room to adjust back and forth for seat position. Available in Stock Cockpit Sizes: 1.2 thru 7.0. There so many cool little modification that can be made if you have the ability to make the decks, hulls and cockpits. Of coerce loading the kayak with gear will off-set things, but at least I could get it perfect for them before they load any gear. I can set the kayak seat to place that measured location directly over the center of buoyancy of that particular kayak. Most will be a few inches in front of their crotch, but a big man with a bit of a gut will shift that location farther forward then a small slender woman. I'll have them roll back and forth until they are balanced and see where that point is on their body. It would be a seat on a board with a roller under it. I could make a balance board so any given paddler could sit on it and I could locate their individual center of gravity so the paddlers center of gravity could be directly over the center of buoyancy. If I can get that, I can position a cockpit over the position where a Seals spray skirt will fit perfectly, and position the seat precisely to allow for it, so the back and butt of the owner are against the back of the seat and back-band when the skirt is centered on their torso with no pull or wrinkling at all. I hope to find a program on-line that can give me the center of buoyancy location for any design I come up with. I'll be using the Scorpio cockpit dimensions in a build down the road with a Redfish seat and a IR Lounge band if can ever find one in Canada. Easy butt first entry and great contact in all for me. My three favourite cockpits have been my Scorpio HV, the Baffin C3 and the Delta 18.5E. In any case I'd suggest keep renting boats until find that one with the perfect cockpit to copy the dimensions from. Brooks used to offer a service that you could send a template of your cockpit in as well as choose paddler position and tube size. Every boat should have one of their cockpit covers and I love their Seasprite model skirt. I don't mean to be speaking ill of Seals. Size information on all Perception kayaks identifies the TrueFit size for your kayak. Even though the rand is tight the fabric is sagged in areas that allow water to pool and drip. Determining the best fit for your kayak has never been easier. The best way to make sure your spraydeck is a perfect fit for you kayak is to measure the dimensions of the cockpit rim (the hole you sit in) measuring across. ![]() My wifes uses a Seals 1.2 on her Avocet RM and her Tahe Reval mini before that. Since I paddle a Scorpio HV it's wrinkled behind me and tight in front. That style of cockpit/seat position makes heel hook re-entry's easier IMO for holding the paddle. Unfortunately Seals puts the paddler position a little forward of that as if to fit a WS Tempest perfectly. I look for boats that take a 1.7 with the paddler at the rear of the coaming. Along with circumference, paddler position and width at the various areas make a huge difference as John mentioned.
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