Kneeling mat

[mikemorini]

Guys and Girls

I'm looking for an alternative to the usual gym equipment matting and wondered if anyone had any suggestions.

cheers Mike

[Elements]

Hi Mike

In all my canoes I use Zote foam, bought from a place in High Wycombe. If you want to have a look at any point in time am happy to meet you one evening in Oxford.

Rob

[mikemorini]

Cheers Rob

I contact you next week when I'm back home.

Mike

[Scots_Charles_River]

Nancy Brooks (Glenmore Lodge) advocated cheap karimats glued in, at the Paddlefest, but I bought a 'bell canoe' neoprene kneeling mat, very comfy and warm in winter.

Nick

[John N]

I've been doing a bit of Pilates recently and have puchased my own mat. Not the silly stuff you see in sports shops but the real deal. This things like a karrimat but thicker (15mm) and ribbed on both sides. Very comfortable, but expensive. My mat (180 x 61cm) was around £40.00. I'd be looking to use this when I buy my own boat (instead of borrowing my sons).

[Elements]

Hi

Mike - I look forward to hearing from you soon, maybe we should have a paddle as well

John - When I see you at the Marlow CC visit I do, check out what I have done to my boats, I think you will be impressed.... as will be your knees :-) Also the Zote foam supplier is next door to you in High Wycombe!!

I would advise using cheap carry matt as from a outdoor shop, as it looks after your knees (ish) but does become very slippy when wet, decreasing your connectivity with the boat!! I will try and find the contact details for the Zote foam supplier and post them on here

Enjoy your canoeing folks

Rob

[TechnoEngineer]

Isn't it Imagineers 01494 473861? I've obtained some material from them before, they do prefer that you know what you're after.

Elements - do you use the LD40 Plastazote stuff, or the LD24, and how thick? Or is it one of their COTS kneelers?

[Elements]

Hi

Thanks for that TechnoEngineer thats the place I get it from. We use Evazote foam at 20mm thick, it comes in sheets 1metre by 1.5metres and costs about £30 per sheet.

Great stuff.
Hope this helps folks

Rob

[mikemorini]

Popped over to Imagineers and picked up a couple of sheets of the foam Rob recommended.
The main man there reckons he might be able to do ethafoam at a reasonable price if anyone is interested for saddles etc.

Rob, what did you stick it in with? I was thinking of using double sided heavy duty carpet tape.
Once I've got it in a paddle sounds like a good idea. I work in Didcot, so scooting into Oxford one evening is no problem.

Mike

[Elements]

Hi Mike

To stick it in I use heavy duty sand paper on the area of the boat that I'm gluing the foam to and them clean it off with a clean rag and meths. Then I let it dry off and use this http://www.bostik.co.uk/diy/product/evo-stik/serious-stuff-wet-grab

Hope this helps & drop me a line when you fancy a paddle

Enjoy

Rob

[TechnoEngineer]

Rob - does that stuff work on PE?

[Elements]

Yep, well it certainley works of Venture Canoe's corelite and roylex. So I would imagine it would work on PE just make sure you make the surface being stuck to aggressively rough!! The Serious Stuff Wet Grab does NOT work however for D rings however, I use Impact Adhesive for that in my Corelite boats

Hope that helps

Rob