One Fugly Canoe Seat

[dougd]

As part of the rebuild of the Bell Mystic was taking the bow seat out to make way for a new sliding seat from Wenonah. Due to it being custom made it will take more time then we have before the race so the old seat is going back in. Problem is the cane was rotted out, spline broken, cane a mess. I contacted my buddy and letting him know I could put webbing in with the caveat that the only webbing I had was pink and orange. After some bantering back and forth he gave in and told me to go for it, a temp seat for now. He's only condition was to forgo the varnish after sanding and paint it with as many fugly colors as I could. I will let you judge for yourself if I did a good enough job. Granted I do need to to a little touch up of the hearts, paint bled through some. Maybe this could be the new trend, fugly seats in a canoe!

I really need to heal up so I can go paddling! This down time is killing me and I have better things to do then to make a perfectly good seat look like a circus act!

dougd

 

[deerfly]

I would just go with the bleeding hearts, makes for a good story and fixing them wouldn't help the overall vibe much anyway. I'm wondering is that a baked potato the frame is propped on in the first pic?

 

[dougd]

Well deerfly, considering this project it probably should have been the way the better half sometimes cooks but it was just a rock, actually about the same!

 

[Odyssey]

Circus seats. Cool idea Doug. Wanna have more fun? Try this. http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis1-color-blindness-simulator/
I saved your image and inserted it into the simulator. Seems those suffering from Protanopia, Deuteranopia, and even Achromatopsia don't know fugly.

 

[yellowcanoe]

There is a new trend here I love the seat
Black webbing is so blah!

 

[Odyssey]

Pink is the new black.

 

[memaquay]

Hmmmmm.....I don't think it was the potato that was baked.......

 

[gumpus]

the pink webbing will complement the rest of your pink gear doug

 

[dougd]

So the Bell Mystic finally left the Humble Hovel yesterday with a new sliding seat in the bow. We had a lot of troubles installing it and I will never put on in any of my boats after that! The only good thing was that the Pink Seat needed to be used instead of the factory seat that came with it. Write up is here if interested:

http://scooter-bangortoportland.blogspot.com/2018/03/what-to-do-with-bell-mystic.html

 

[gumpus]

Fun to read your write up Doug. Congrats on putting that Mystic back into service...pretty heroic effort on your part. I remember test paddling a Mystic when they first came out and from what I recall they just pop up to a fast cruise with very little effort and then maintain a fast cruise with almost no effort at all. Like cheating.