Solar SP C-Tech Sofa Chair Recliner

The Solar SP C-Tech Sofa Chair Recliner is the top of Solar's session seating: a five-position reclining back on a high-tensile aluminium frame that weighs 6.7kg. For a chair this size, that number is the headline — most chairs offering this much seat are half again as heavy.

What you get for the money

• Five-position reclining backrest — from sat forward over the buzzers to laid back with your feet up, without leaving the chair.
• 6.7kg on a high-tensile aluminium folding frame — light enough to carry a real distance, which is not true of most full session chairs.
• 3D DuraDore air-pocketed, self-ventilating mattress — ergonomic shaping plus airflow, so you are not peeling yourself off it in August.
• Front and rear Legloc — this is the detail that matters. It prevents collapse under lateral movement, which is exactly how cheaper session chairs fail when you lean sideways to net a fish.
• Spring-Loc adjustable legs with swivelling mudfeet — front and rear folding legs, all adjustable, so it levels on any bank.
• Compression straps and padded arm rests — it stays shut in transit and it is comfortable when it is open.

Size and fit

The Solar SP C-Tech Sofa Chair Recliner stands 91–101cm high, 80cm front to back and 80cm arm to arm, finished in SP C-Tech Digital SolarCam. Worth measuring your bivvy porch before you buy: 80cm square is a lot of chair, and in a compact shelter it will fill the doorway. If your swim is tight or your walk is long, the Solar SP C-Tech Sofa Chair at 5.9kg is the smaller-footprint version of the same idea, and the SP C-Tech Recliner Chair is the lighter-duty option below it.

Protect it

At this money the chair is worth covering. The SP C-Tech Sofa Chair Cover is cut for Solar's sofa chairs in waterproof SolarCam peach skin with taped seams. See the full carp fishing chairs range, or the whole chairs and bedchairs category.