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Here again I did things slightly different then Devlin called for. Most of the people who build these boats use a sliding rowing seat, most commonly a Piantedosi Row Wing. But I knew that I would be taking the boat on long road trips where my vehicle was already pretty full. So I decided on having a fixed seat. The Piantedosi Row Wing would take up too much room. I lost a little bit of performance with shorter oars, and now moving seat, but it still worked wonderfully.



The top of this seat box is made out of balsa core, with plywood sides. I made it this length so that I could have two rowing positions for when I had a passenger in the stern. When rowing by myself I would use foot braces (installed later). And when rowing with two, the bulkhead itself became my foot brace. Handy lead blocks for weights used again.

You can also just make out the little epoxy fillets I added at the joint between the side panels and the bulkhead.

The rowing seat also doubles as postivie flotation for the boat. It floats very high in the water when swamped.