New seats for 17' Blue hole?

[Tim Eubanks]

Anybody know the best place to get some replacment seats?

[Jim Krueger]

Tim,

I have had my beloved 17' Blue Hole for years, and as much as I love the canoe, there is no love lost on the seats... It might look kind of funky but I always thought how comfortable it would be to relpace them with those nice roto-moulded seats from the Old Town canoes.

Best Regards
Jim

[Tim Eubanks]

Jim
No doubt. I can sit on almost anything, but those things kill my bahunkas. I'm guessing they'll have to be custom made. Maybe I should just take them down to the frame and come back up with something.?

[Jim Krueger]

Tim,

I'm thinking it would be good to remove the flat plastic seats attached to the frames and just 86 them ,then go back with a nice job of webbing of some sort. When I bought my canoe form Mike Coogan some 18 or so years ago, he had already covered the existing seats with 1/2" of Ethafoam. It's certainly made the seats much more tolorable for my use over the years and since I mostly kayak now and use the old Bluehole little, I think I will leave mine as is.

Best Regards
Jim

[andrewcarroll]

Go on ebay and search for canoe seats, they have several webbed and cane ones. Retrofit them to the blue hole.

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[OldBlueHoleDude]

I install new seats in my bluehole every year!

Takes 1/2 roll of duct tape for two. Save the other half for accidents. Custom fit every time!

[Al Donaldson]

Tim:

If you'd like to put in the last seats that the boat will ever need, locate a Nova Craft dealer and pick up a pair of Nova Craft seats. They cost just a bit more than cane or "lawn chair webbing" seats, but they are laced with nylon cord and seem to be bomb proof and darned near everlasting (and they look better than almost any other manufacturer's seats!)

HTH

al