Lurker here: I have an older tandem Hobie kayak, no one is certain the age as the serial number is not in the Hobie database - Matt and I have been over and over this. Anyway, She-who-must-be-obeyed wanted new (padded) seats. We purchased a set at the nearest Hobie dealer who said they would be easy to pull out and replace. Well, he was selling a product. Here's the scoop: The old seats had two nuts per seat imbedded into the hull. There were screws that went through the seats into the nut in the hull. The new seats have the large expanding 'sliding' nut I have tried to picture in the attached image/URL where the seat is below the snap ring where the brass section is located
I think I have two options: 1) Drill out the existing brass nuts and push the new sliding nuts through the new holes with lots of silicone to seal; or 2) Put the existing screws through the new seats, although I may need to purchase longer screws to go all the way through the thicker seats. I am leaning towards option two, but want to hear your thoughts.
Thx, Rob
Okay, let's try this picture:
