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I’m in the finishing touches of building two tandems. I’m intrigued by the Alpacka Gnu for adventure racing, and I like the idea of their center tube seat. Has anyone tried something similar on a DIY raft? Theirs is self bailing and zips into the floor, but it seems like welding a simple tube down the centerline of the tandem floor could make a decent seat and add a nice keel to the boat. Any thoughts?
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For anyone following: today I went for a paddle with a 5 inch PVC pipe laying down the floor center line like the alpaca gnu seat and I sat on top of my pack which was laid over the pipe. Test runs of that versus just sitting on the regular DIY seat with no pipe came out exactly the same! The pipe on the floor did improve tracking and reduce wobble with each paddle stroke, but overall time was exactly the same on my test runs.
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