Deck Chairs….

[Capt. Debbie]

They make those heavy duty deck chairs even with clamp on gimbals ( not very strong).

The problems with these chairs is they are bulky and dont store all that well on deck while fishing.

I used to run charters well offshore. I found a couple of things:
1- folding lawn chairs will indeed collapse from the pounding. The aluminum legs will bend under it. DONT BUY THESE!

2- Placing the chair as close to the stern takes out a lot of pounding. But depending on wind conditions, can be a wet spot with bow spray blown back into the boat.

3- Depending on the pounding your legs ( bouncy sea conditions) are a better shock absorber than these chairs. The multi $1000 helm chairs used on commercial stuff is cooler. But depending on the pounding, nothing totally negates the spinal compression.

I hope this helps?