Sea kayakers - foot plate or foot pegs?

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#21

That boat had plastic BHs and never had a problem…
I kept an eye on them and wondered but no fails…

#22

I’m good.

#23

Well I know you are weighing the pros and cons of a custom Isel.
The foot plate in the Isel is really comfortable and its adjustable.
All my previous boats I had foot pegs. Now buying a new boat is a lot of money .I had to save up for 2 years for mine. Now I Kayak most weekends April to October. So the boat gets used. That’s how I justified it. I never regretted it. Saturday I will paddling off the Coast of Rhode Island and with a big smile. If you kayak often its money well spent.
I over thought the purchase for years.

#24

for several reasons, I recently installed a foot pad into my fast boat.

I built it with a piece of aluminum angle, drilled to fit across the two rails for foot pegs. I cut a 20 degrees angle on a piece of cherry and attached a piece of 1/4 in plywood to that.

Attaches that to the aluminum and used bolts with wing nuts to attach it to the boat.

After deciding I liked it, painted it with Brightsides polyurethane paint. Now I love it.

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#25

It’s difficult to justify given that I am 10+ hours to the nearest ocean. It was a no-brainer when I purchased the Alaw Bach second hand. My future plans do include trying to move back to the mid-Atlantic, or perhaps the Northeast, so maybe that’s justification enough. The foot plate in the Isel looks very nice.

#26

That sounds nice and very similar to the foot plate in my Dagger WW boat. It could be moved forward and back in small increments.