Materials:
Cardboard (work surface/board protection)
D-ring patches x 2
HH-66 vinyl cement
Rubber gloves, rag
Rubbing alcohol
Sharpie marker, pencil
Box cutter
Metal spoon
Mason jar lid and can o’ beans for weight.

Especially in the colder parts of the year, when I can’t afford to fall in to cold water, I use a chair or a stool atop my inflatable paddle board.
It serves several purposes. It lowers my center of gravity, but not so low that it messes with the ergonomics of the paddling. If it’s windy, my entire body is not acting like a sail.
It’s quite easy to go quickly from sitting to standing.
For almost a full year, I just set the stool on the paddleboard and that was fine until I got a more narrow board with less margin for error. I wanted the simplest most light weight system I could devise to keep the chair from shifting on the board. D-rings are great for lashing equipment to the top of your board, but my paddle-boards all have foam pads on top, right where I wanted my D-rings. I needed to remove some of that foam so that I could attach the D-rings directly to the board itself. I videod the process, learning as I went. There are 3 different boards in the video, hence the pattern and color changes.

My latest favorite chair is a milk crate! It's on its side, open side to the front so I can easily access items I put in there. Stable, lightweight, portable storage container when I unbuckle it from the paddle board. The video thumbnail pic is from our latest paddle camp trip. For the prototype I zip tied some sturdy foam so it's comfy to sit on for longer paddles. Cuts of yoga mats also work very well.

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