I have been playing around with a different seat set up that is more like a kayak and I now have a whole new set up, one piece foam seat, inflatable under-seat to protect the floor, molded hip pads that attache directly to the boat, foam bulkhead and two different foam floor set ups. Although not designed for extended hiking (bulky) I feel a lot safer about running big shallow drops on shorter trips with this set up and I have still kept the boat to 10.5 lbs even with all this stuff. All parts attach directly to the boat so no “yard sales”
I still need to try the system out, I have been making and piecing the parts together for a while but headed out tomorrow for some after work creeking with a couple good sizable vertical drops and some good bolder gardens so I`ll post some on our blog on how it works after that, but here are a few pictures of what I made.
Seat https://www.dropbox.com/sc/19i3uob1wuknn9c/9Q8xV8UXBW
Seat https://www.dropbox.com/sc/bwcu04ylirpby4g/U2J27ocmas
Seat https://www.dropbox.com/sc/646wvu7wcgmkqj6/edUsILcBzd
Seat https://www.dropbox.com/sc/70a4ttiow0k6bun/maAe7MZj-g
Seat https://www.dropbox.com/sc/phl08up0yl3uplq/acADxTn6zQ
Foot Brace https://www.dropbox.com/sc/zzk67x4xl8xgv7k/wK15zqe2r-
Foot Brace https://www.dropbox.com/sc/qst87v9stwk4yh7/fg6LSOPRDo
Still working on making my rigid thigh braces but at the rate it is going I`m sure I will have mine done before Alpacka releases there new boat with them (how many years has it been now?).