Fallguy wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2014 at 1:32pm:

Thanks for the input fella's.  I am working out  a plan for a sliding seat bracket that will hang from the gunwale that will allow me to hopefully find the sweet spot. But now we are in the hard water season and I am enjoying the early start to the Cross-Country ski season.

I wasn't going to bring this up, but your post and Solus opened the door, so I figure I'd walk on thru. ;D

Fallguy, was I right about your solo seat being not dead center? If so, that "sweet spot" might not be so far that you need a elaborate sliding seat with all that adjustability or possible stress on the gunnels?

Just thinking out loud here, but what if you got some aircraft grade aluminum channel the same size/thickness as the hanging brackets you already have. Bolt those to the existing brackets using stainless carriage bolts and the existing holes. Allow the channel to cantilever over back toward the stern, say no more than the width of the seat. I think that a matter of a few inches and proper pack loading would have a great effect on handling.

You don't want to get the load completely off the existing hangar brackets, but I think you could go as far as having the front seat bar set to the middle of your existing bracket and the rear in the cantilevered channel.
If you wanted to get fancy, you could mill slots in the aluminum channel and be able to slide the seat in more increments.

Just a thought. Might prove worse than a hanging bracket, but could easily C-clamp the channel pieces in and move the seat and see how it looks and get a feel if it would stress the existing hangars to much?