the original soft landyacht seat was on a design called the WINDBUGGY by Don Rypinski in the 1960. Afolding tubular frame design too.
If you want more armour why not make a futon style soft seat of thin ply strips

Have a look at the seats commonly used in go karts. They come in different sizes, are usually made from fibreglass and are usually mounted in a semi-recumbent position. Not cheap new with a starting price around $160.

Go kart shops have lots of other off the shelf bits that could be useful on a land yacht too, like struts, brackets etc.

That would be really good if you had a couple of pictures hills. I had an idea a while ago to make a polystyrene foam seat and fibreglass it. Ill have to have another look around for the fibreglass gear, think it might have been a little pricey from memory. A cardboard seat is definately worth a look tho if possible.

I'll have to check out the go kart seats cisco, never seen them before or thought about them for that matter. Be nice if they have the type i'd like for a good price.

Thanks for the ideas. Its good to get some outside thought.

Is this the sort of thing you are after? Paul built this for a kite buggy he started to build until I caught wind of it...nuff said

It unscrews from the chassis and can be put in a parcel and sent via Aus post.
Susan

Thanks Promo girl and Landyacht, its not exactly what I had in mind but thanks for the pic. It looks more applicable to my miniyacht, which may need a seat one of these days so I'll keep you in mind.

I will definately work on getting some sketches up here soon. Its hard to draw something that can be 'read' by someone else. I had my four wisdom teeth out 24 hours ago and not feeling too flash so dont hold your breath anyone .

Wuss! Im using strategy My girlfriend was staying with me so I had many sympathy points to use. I'll miss the feeling of invulnerability, no one yells at a sick person much

I had four out in the chair. One incised and one buried, the other two were easy. I hate the angle grinder tool that was used though I thank you for the well wishes.

Anyway, back to the topic. here's a diagram of the seat design Ive been playing with. Blue area is canvas, green is steel chassis tube, orange is alloy tube. The canvas continues to the front of the yacht purely for aesthetics, I imagine 200-300mm in front of the centre mounting points there would be no weight placed upon the canvas (apart from if legs fell from the steering pedals). Hopefully some light will be shed on the general idea.

And the diagrams here are not no scale

I suspect it will want to be wider at the foot pedals, and agree with hills about the boom . Try to sheet straight down rather than on an angle as this stops strain being focused onto the mast and breaking it. I would build wider for that length but thats just me . I do like it so far

My father just said something when i was discussing this with him and asked why I couldn't use a kayak with the rear trimmed? So long as the strength would hold up does anyone think this could work?

Additional question; does anyone have an idea how much a fibreglass cockpit would cost to be made up (rough figures)?

Ha Ha I downloaded those as soon as I got to the forum. I've been into radio controlled vehicles and have had experience planking, I have to say Im a foam carver through and through now. Needless to say though that his work is beautiful. Be nice to see some more pics of the landyacht someday.

$220 Now Im interested I think. Is there a pic hanging round somewhere of the seat design? Or which yacht it suits?

EDIT (In like 20 sec): Jeez your fast!!

EDIT: Or a mind reader.

EDIT 3: Yes, I'd have to agree, thats a pretty nice seat design. Now I really have food for thought.

Thanks for the pics Hills. I think I'll send David a message to see whats going on, I'll blame you for dobbing him in The more I look at AUS230 (theyacht ) the more I want one. I can dream on.

Do you have a rough idea how much your Pacific magic seat cost to make? I wouldn't probably make one myself at this stage due to lack of knowledge but curiosity has the better of me (as always).

lachlan3556 said...

My father just said something when i was discussing this with him and asked why I couldn't use a kayak with the rear trimmed? So long as the strength would hold up does anyone think this could work?

Done by Pat coffee circa1983 in a class 6 . won every race that season. do it again!

Thanks for the info guys. Especially the bit about using a kayak hull Just looking for Davids email address, I know Ive seen it around the forums before.

Thats a CLub 88 seat from Stan Sharp and Paul Day circa 1987. The new Promo seat that we made vlast year used the same original body measurementsfor its basic shape. They are a bit of a bugger to lay up in a mold due to the tight size. and the club usually makes them without gelcoat . they also tend to be a bit heavy due to a lack of stuctural engineering , relying on lots of resin and glass instead