Our sons are 3 and 5. We've been using the Spring Creek yoke/seat but they're getting too big to share it comfortably.

So I'm looking for a wider third seat - suggestions?

I'm open to both temporary and "drop-in" options.

We have a mn 3 and I duck taped the 3rd seet to reach both sides

We got a Carlisle snap-in seat. It fits our 17' kevlar really well right in front of the stern thwart, and the kids have legroom before the yoke. It snaps in surprisingly securely, although we do take it off to portage. Plenty of room last year for a 7 and 5 year old.

quote caribouluvr: "We got a Carlisle snap-in seat. It fits our 17' kevlar really well right in front of the stern thwart, and the kids have legroom before the yoke. It snaps in surprisingly securely, although we do take it off to portage. Plenty of room last year for a 7 and 5 year old."

is this adjustable? I need something like this for our Spirit 2

quote caribouluvr: "We got a Carlisle snap-in seat. It fits our 17' kevlar really well right in front of the stern thwart, and the kids have legroom before the yoke. It snaps in surprisingly securely, although we do take it off to portage. Plenty of room last year for a 7 and 5 year old."

That's what I'm currently looking at, too. Do you just slide it along the gunwales until it snugs up?

quote thistlekicker: "

quote caribouluvr: "We got a Carlisle snap-in seat. It fits our 17' kevlar really well right in front of the stern thwart, and the kids have legroom before the yoke. It snaps in surprisingly securely, although we do take it off to portage. Plenty of room last year for a 7 and 5 year old."

That's what I'm currently looking at, too. Do you just slide it along the gunwales until it snugs up?"

Yes, really just slide along until it gets a good snug fit, or sort of a half-snap over the gunwales. It works out perfectly in my Wenonah Boundary Waters, which has a little smaller width between the thwart and yoke on the stern side vs the bow side. Then we have the larger area in front of the yoke for all gear.
It's not adjustable at all, but it's pretty forgiving on how it flexes and snaps around the sides.

I want to put one of these in my MN3.

quote bumabu: "I want to put one of these in my MN3."

I thought about doing something very similar, but with a youth tandem seat. I bailed on the idea and thankfully Piragis let me return it for store credit. Here's the thread I had on it.

quote caribouluvr: "

quote thistlekicker: "

quote caribouluvr: "We got a Carlisle snap-in seat. It fits our 17' kevlar really well right in front of the stern thwart, and the kids have legroom before the yoke. It snaps in surprisingly securely, although we do take it off to portage. Plenty of room last year for a 7 and 5 year old."

That's what I'm currently looking at, too. Do you just slide it along the gunwales until it snugs up?"

Yes, really just slide along until it gets a good snug fit, or sort of a half-snap over the gunwales. It works out perfectly in my Wenonah Boundary Waters, which has a little smaller width between the thwart and yoke on the stern side vs the bow side. Then we have the larger area in front of the yoke for all gear.
It's not adjustable at all, but it's pretty forgiving on how it flexes and snaps around the sides."

We've used the same seat for about 3 years now and it has worked great. Our kids are too big now to share it so one of them usually sits on their portage pack in front of the thwart with portage pads (uses a sleeping pad for back support) and the other takes the seat. I've usually bungied the seat in for portaging as it will slip out over time. Works best at about a 35 1/2 to 36 in. width on the canoe (we have champlain but it fit in the Old Town royalex 16' we used to have).