I am getting ready to adapt a new 15 foot Wenonah Backwater (square back, Royalex) canoe for smallmouth river fishing and canoe comfort. I plan to rig it with front and rear remotely operated anchors, 55# electric trolling motor, oars and removable padded swivel seats. I want to make all these adaptations without undue damage to the canoe.
The bass-type seats are my greatest concern. I don't want to add too much weight to the canoe. I want to secure them (7 inch base) to the 6 inch webbing canoe seats without drilling holes.
There was a pretty good discussion of bass seats in a canoe on this forum in May 2007, but no photos.
I am sure that some well cut pieces of 3/4 inch marine (?) plywood would be of use. Has anyone recently installed bass type removable seats in a canoe recently? I found some good, but pricey, complete seat units on the NuCanoe site.
Mike Creel
SC
