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.


Atlantic County
( 39.490520, -74.639531 )

  1. Absecon Creek - Absecon ( 39.42635, -74.48653 )
  2. Atsion Lake - Pinelands ( 39.73989, -74.73128 )
  3. Barnegat Bay - Tuckerton ( 39.57671, -74.33078 )
  4. Bass River - New Gretna ( 39.57721, -74.45079 )
  5. Batsto Lake - Batsto ( 39.64682, -74.65327 )
  6. Batsto River - Wharton State Forest ( 39.71014, -74.66747 )
  7. Great Bay - Graveling Point ( 39.53959, -74.38821 )
  8. Great Bay - Great Bay Blvd (N) ( 39.56316, -74.34202 )
  9. Great Bay - Great Bay Blvd (S) ( 39.52160, -74.31849 )
  10. Great Bay - Motts Creek ( 39.51826, -74.43637 )
  11. Great Egg Harbor Bay - Beerdley's Point ( 39.28756, -74.62664 )
  12. Great Egg Harbor Bay - Somers Point (N) ( 39.31130, -74.59272 )
  13. Great Egg Harbor Bay - Somers Point (S) ( 39.30640, -74.60763 )
  14. Great Egg Harbor River - Penny Pot ( 39.57547, -74.82239 )
  15. Great Egg Harbor River - Weymouth ( 39.51339, -74.77889 )
  16. Inside Thorofare - Atlantic City ( 39.35533, -74.45687 )
  17. Inside Thorofare - Ventnor ( 39.34593, -74.47623 )
  18. Lake Absegami - Bass River ( 39.62529, -74.42760 )
  19. Lake Lenape - Mays Landing ( 39.46187, -74.73755 )
  20. Lakes Bay - Ventnor ( 39.35318, -74.48744 )
  21. Mullica River - Batsto ( 39.63973, -74.65889 )
  22. Mullica River - Crowley Landing ( 39.62640, -74.61922 )
  23. Mullica River - Hay Road Beach ( 39.57349, -74.53943 )
  24. Nacote Creek - Port Republic ( 39.51768, -74.49363 )
  25. Oswego Lake - Penn State Forest ( 39.73454, -74.49111 )
  26. Oswego River - Martha Bridge ( 39.68159, -74.51416 )
  27. Reeds Bay - Absecon ( 39.44306, -74.46194 )
  28. Somers Bay - Brigantine ( 39.40916, -74.36937 )
  29. Tuckahoe River - Corbin City ( 39.29883, -74.75319 )
  30. Tuckahoe River - Tuckahoe ( 39.29545, -74.74010 )
  31. Wading River - Beaver Branch ( 39.65059, -74.51890 )
  32. Wading River - Bodine Field Road ( 39.65401, -74.52497 )
  33. Wading River - Evans Bridge ( 39.67517, -74.54066 )
  34. Wading River - Godfrey Bridge ( 39.68987, -74.54612 )
  35. Wading River - Harrisville Pond ( 39.66547, -74.52434 )
  36. Wading River - Hawkins Bridge ( 39.71442, -74.56595 )

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