Seat Position in DR's

[DanH]

I have recently been playing with the position of the seat in my MadBoy and have noticed massive differences in the relative performance of the kayak. I have paddled it on big volume rivers >20,000cfs and found the kayak performs better (for me) with he seat further back (3rd hole back). However when I started steep creeking with it, I found this position made the kayak a bit squirrelly on the tail. Moving the seat forward 1 notch (to position 2), makes a massive difference and really plants the kayak on the creek and makes it drive really well.

I have in the past, played with the seating position of other DR kayaks (Fish, Squashtail, Mafia, Pintail, Stinger) and found similar effects. What are other peoples experiences of seating positions and there effects on the performance of the particular kayak?

For information, I weigh about 65kg and am about 173cm tall and I use either the medium elite seat in creek or river boats and the Testarossa seat in playboats.