Still the champ is the nicely padded, six- ūposition, ratchet-hinged Sport-a-Seat.

Ever a mystery is why most places to sit on a boat appear to have been designed by disciples of Frank Lloyd Wright. America's most famous architect never saw a right angle he didn't like—one leg perfectly horizontal; the other absolutely vertical. There are a few European boats with properly cocked seats, maybe even curved, with slanting backrests. But most are as cruel as Wright's often-pictured dining room chairs.

To compensate for this lack of regard for the human form, which has many nice contours in the seating region, boatowners almost invariably collect things to alleviate the suffering. It's time to review the whole painful topic. …