02-22-2010, 01:26 PM
thanks for the feedback. it has been very heplfull. I live on the border of virginia and tennessee my main focus of this design is for use on small rivers and in small ponds, the rivers hear are slow moving with a lot of shallow areas, this is the main reason that the foam is totally caged in by the conduit.. I also wanted a boat that i could put on the racks of my atv and run through the woods without having to worry about snagging the floats on a tree or a rock and cutting them down, foam is not illegal hear when it comes to boats, but I sill don't want the foam braking up when i hit something and littering the banks of the river , by protecting it should last a long time . i pan to seal the foam with a latex paint and in addition i will protect the bottom and top with a pvc material that is used as shower backing . this can be found a lowes or home depot, after reading all of the suggestions on this post i think that your suggestion of making the seat adjustable may be the best way to go , this is not going to be easy due to the fact that the seat is in the middle of the boat and the boat folds in half, but that is the part that i like best , trying to figure out something that i have never seen before. thanks again to all on this site for taking time to help a dumb country boy out.
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