how to keep car seat dry?

I trailer my Getaway. When I sit in my car, I get the driver's seat wet. Though I put a towel on the seat, it still gets wetter than I'd like. How do other trailer people keep their seats dry?

Thanks

are you serious?

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Yeah!!! Are you????

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David

I take heavy-duty 55 gallon plastic bags and use them to sit on to protect the seats.

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Uh, I usually change my clothes. Riding home in wet clothing is nasty - and you're likely to get a rash.

Change under a towel if you have to.

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I just use my sons truck!

Waterproof seats in car

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Drive home naked, wet bathing suit and wetsuit on a plastic bag in the trunk (this will allow the suit to dry out over time which will be important as noted latter). Don't speed as the story just gets too complicated. If arrested, just point the officer here and tell them this is where you get most of your life advice. Reading this and understanding how low we all are on the food chain, the legal system will take pitty on you and let you go. Enough time will have past to allow your previously wet suit to dry, so please redress prior to starting your new trip home.

Or you could dry off and change as Matt suggested.

No, that is not nearly as much fun.

Obviously you can change into something more dry but the usual beach sailing method is to wear board shorts (they dry faster) and have a few beverages while standing with your rear toward the setting sun talking sh*t and letting your soggy butt dry out!

I think what he is referring to is when you get wet loading the boat on the trailer and then have to get in the car/truck and drive it up to the top of the ramp. If the wind is blowing around I usually have to get waist deep to guide the boat on the trailer.

Obviously you can change after you get the boat de-rigged and are ready to drive home but changing while your car/trailer are on the boat ramp is not practical.

I have been using a towel on the seat but it still soaks through. I might try the trash bag idea. I am too cheap for the waterproof seat covers I have seen advertised in boat magazines. Another idea I just thought of is I have seen these ground blankets with a plastic waterproof side and a fleece side, that might work.

Then stop using a ramp. I haven't backed a cat trailer into the water in probably four years. Dealing with honky, redneck, butthole fisherman gets old pretty quick.

The flip side is, if I were drunk, out fishing, and waiting at the ramp, I'd probably yell at the sailboats too.

I hear you about the drunk redneck fishermen but on an inland lake that is the only option. Maybe next year I can afford a dry slip at a marina where I can leave the mast up and have a less busy ramp. Either way when you use a ramp you eventually have to drive the truck up to the top.

I decided not to use the ramp last weekend and was scolded by the lake patrol. He said it would cause "beach erosion". The "beach" at this location is about 10 feet long and is at the end of a wall. On the other side of this so-called "beach" is weeds and muck. Go figure. Anyway. I wear board shorts which dry quick. By the time I finish de-rigging and putting everything away. I am pretty much dry.......except for the sweat.

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I once saw a young man who was kayaking get out soaking wet from his boat and he went to his truck and got out and put on some sort of kayaking "man dress" over his wet bathing suit then pulled off his wet bathing down his "man dress".It looked a little disturbing to me,the "man dress" and all.The fabric looked like a towel.He just walked around in his "man dress" putting his boat and gear away and then drove off.
My Hobie sailing buddies and I who witnessed this looked at each other a little puzzled until we saw his license plate.He was from California.Then it all made sense...
We just mixed up another jug of gin and tonic and tried to erase from our brain that disturbing memory which worked until I read this post...bummer

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