Choosing The Best Lounge, Back To Back And Drop Away Boat Seats

There are a lot of different models of boat seats, and knowing their dissimilarities and possible uses will allow you to make an informed decision and to buy the one that suits you and your boat best.

Lounge seats and their variations are used on most kinds of pleasure craft such as motor yachts, and are less common on smaller fishing bats and skiffs. They can be found either inside the boat, or around the outside cockpit on bigger boats. Most have cushioned seats, fiberglass or plastic frames, and several have dry storage space underneath.

These boat seats are usually fixed to the ship, and if intended for outside use, are also weatherproofed. This to avoid that they soak up with water, which would make then useless.

One kind of pretty common lounge boat seat is the back-to-back seat, which is comprised of two boat seats that are attached together at their backrests. These are quite common on boats carrying a lot of passengers such as ferries, but also on leisure fishing pontoons for instance. They are often integrated with tables, with multiple back-to-back seat rows being alternated with tables.

The simplest type of seat for people-carrying boats is a basic bench seat, usually fitted with cushions for comfort. These can be fitted on dinghies or pontoons, either in the middle or as an all-round seating solution.

It's quite common for these bench boat seats to be collapsible, or also completely removable. In this way, they are often employed to add passenger seating in a pinch, and folded down or put away when not in use so that circulation of passengers is made easier.

Most boat seat manufacturers will also have leaning posts in their inventory. These are sometimes fitted with a little bench that you can actually use to sit on, but are mostly used to keep your balance on boats.

The most common kinds of emplacements for leaning posts are either to keep one's balance, and only secondarily to sit, or as fishing rod holders on boats intended for line fishing. In the latter case, besides the bench you will often find rod holders on the post.

When choosing any of the above seats you should begin with the end in mind and make sure that they are well-suited to the purpose of having them on your boat, and then consider the quality of the manufacturing and their expected durability, especially in view of the conditions that they will be subject to by the sun and the sea.

Make sure to also compare different boat seat manufacturers to understand the difference in the boat seat models that they offer. These differences may seem small, but they could actually amount to a lot. You can check on the internet to compare boat seat types.