OK, so I pulled attachment points and will redo them in the correct orientation. I cut the old seat up to inspect, and found about 2 dozen points that the TPU and Nylon bond has given up– they feel like little blisters. They are all over the fabric, on the inside of the top and bottom of the seat, and a few of them correspond to small leaks that developed through the fabric. They seem to be near the wear points (the big long one is in the front center of the seat– looks like from folding, but I never folded the seat up like that), but I feel like it shouldn’t be separating this much with this little time on the water.
Short of painting the entire inside of the boat with aquaseal, is there anything I can do to help ensure that I don’t start having similar delamination on the actual boat?
