Build your own Folding Hiking Bench
This is the Deadrock folding hiking bench. At the bottom are the detailed plans for building your own.
Click on the thumbnails for the big picture
This is a view from the front:
Hiking-strap detail:
and from the back:
and folding it...
you can shut it entirely......
and lean it against the wall! 
It has taken the heaviest Laser sailors (210 lbs good enough for you? - or shouldn't you be sailing a Finn?) and it has lasted for four years without needing more than a screw-tightening. There are no pulleys, no bags of sand: just try to hike on it without using your arms, and you'll be fit enough to hike 2-mile beats in your Laser!
These two are getting a head start. Thomas
Here are the 'technical' drawings. These have been amended from
feedback I have received on the prototype, but please send any problems you have understanding
them to deadrock@globalnet.co.uk.
They were written in Powerpoint and have been saved as GIF files. Your browser should therefore
have them stored somewhere on your PC. If you use Internet Explorer they will be in one of your
and Ben, 
offspring of Alan Davis,
are getting in shape for the 2020 Olympics. In case you don't know, Alan was Laser Apprentice World
Champion back in the Dark Ages.
c:\windows\ Temporary Internet Files subfolders as
'hiking bench1.gif' to 'hiking bench4.gif'.
