Seat Pads

The way you sit in a kayak places almost all your weight on your butt, and there is little way to vary your position. In a short time you can get very sore. If your kayak has any kind of seat pad at all, it is a thin hard cruel joke that does not help in the least.

These thick neoprene foam bleacher cushions are a huge improvement over the thin pads that come with the boat ( if it even has those! ) Stack two for real comfort. Tie them to the seatback with a piece of bungie cord.

If your boat has an adjustable seat back, adjust it slightly forward of vertical. That way, when you lean on it, it will be straight and support your back the way it should.


Update:

I recently took the factory seat pad off my boat. I've come to the conclusion that it does nothing at all. I think it was just put there for looks. For whatever it is worth, I now sit a half inch lower in the boat. I also took the sun-beaten pad off the backrest, and don't miss it at all.


Raritan River
( 40.59399, -74.59918 )

  1. Raritan River - Bound Brook ( 40.55995, -74.52758 )
  2. Raritan River - Branchburg ( 40.55644, -74.68838 )
  3. Raritan River - Duke Island (E) ( 40.56082, -74.64751 )
  4. Raritan River - Duke Island (W) ( 40.55279, -74.68330 )
  5. Raritan River - Edison ( 40.48791, -74.38382 )
  6. Raritan River - Highland Park ( 40.48864, -74.42226 )
  7. Raritan River - New Brunswick ( 40.48760, -74.43280 )
  8. Raritan River - Perth Amboy ( 40.50057, -74.27712 )
  9. Raritan River - Piscataway (N) ( 40.54085, -74.51236 )
  10. Raritan River - Piscataway (S) ( 40.50935, -74.46641 )
  11. Raritan River - Power Canal ( 40.55112, -74.67136 )
  12. Raritan River - Raritan ( 40.56492, -74.63884 )
  13. Raritan River - Sayreville ( 40.47450, -74.35606 )
  14. Raritan River - Somerville (E) ( 40.55798, -74.61520 )
  15. Raritan River - Somerville (W) ( 40.56539, -74.63173 )
  16. Raritan River North Branch ( 40.60018, -74.67447 )
  17. Raritan River North Branch - Far Hills ( 40.68441, -74.64214 )
  18. Raritan River North Branch - Natirar Park ( 40.64761, -74.68024 )
  19. Raritan River North Branch Depot ( 40.58160, -74.68161 )
  20. Raritan River South Branch ( 40.54640, -74.69603 )
  21. Raritan River South Branch - Clinton (N) ( 40.63854, -74.91169 )
  22. Raritan River South Branch - Clinton (S) ( 40.62806, -74.91200 )
  23. Raritan River South Branch - Flemington (C) ( 40.52105, -74.82666 )
  24. Raritan River South Branch - Flemington (E) ( 40.50354, -74.77814 )
  25. Raritan River South Branch - Flemington (N) ( 40.53810, -74.83934 )
  26. Raritan River South Branch - Hamden ( 40.59699, -74.89827 )
  27. Raritan River South Branch - High Bridge (N) ( 40.66394, -74.89742 )
  28. Raritan River South Branch - High Bridge (S) ( 40.66094, -74.90237 )
  29. Raritan River South Branch - Lockwood Gorge (N) ( 40.69682, -74.87171 )
  30. Raritan River South Branch - Lockwood Gorge (S) ( 40.68816, -74.88014 )
  31. Raritan River South Branch - Neshanic (E) ( 40.50873, -74.72776 )
  32. Raritan River South Branch - Neshanic (W) ( 40.50250, -74.74182 )
  33. Raritan River South Branch - Rte 31 ( 40.56315, -74.85544 )
  34. Raritan River South Branch - Stanton ( 40.57219, -74.86834 )
  35. Raritan River South Branch - Sunnyside ( 40.57942, -74.88795 )

The Raritan River is what is left of the outflow of the Hudson River after it broke through the Verrazano Narrows about 6,000 years ago and changed to its present course. The modern Raritan River drains much of central New Jersey, with tributaries threading through the state from Princeton to Morristown. One northern tributary - the Lamington River - reaches almost to Lake Hopatcong. Zoom the map out to see the entire drainage. The thin red line is the "fall line" - the nominal division between uplands and lowlands.

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