Nautilus Harness

cryswilkins

New member
Today at Walmart I tried my DD in the Nautilus. It was zip-tied to the shelf, so I couldn't move the harness up to the appropriate slot, but when I put her in it seemed that the harness was very short. She was in the bottom slot, but even with the second, and there was only maybe 5 inches of adjuster strap left once it was tightened.

Is that typical? I was thinking that maybe the harness was routed incorrectly, because I could not see that harness fitting a larger kid. My DD is only 25 lbs and skinny.
 
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Andie

New member
My 6 year old is 50 lbs, 46" tall and has at least 8-10" of harness adjuster strap left when it is tightened correctly. He is in the top slots. Maybe it isn't correct, or was stuck on something?
 

amyg530

Active member
i remember playing with one at walmart and thinking the same thing and i dont think it was tied down
 

snowbird25ca

Moderator - CPST Instructor
The way that the harness is routed on the back makes it actually shorter on the lower slots and longer on the higher ones from what I understand. It has a bar & rollers and the harness is always routed up and over that, so there is less harness taken up that way as the harness straps are moved up. :thumbsup:

I haven't heard of any complaints of the harness being short for the kid using it at any rate.
 

BookMama

Senior Community Member
The way that the harness is routed on the back makes it actually shorter on the lower slots and longer on the higher ones from what I understand. It has a bar & rollers and the harness is always routed up and over that, so there is less harness taken up that way as the harness straps are moved up. :thumbsup:

I haven't heard of any complaints of the harness being short for the kid using it at any rate.

What Trudy said. :p

It's because of the way the harness is routed. DS is 7.5 and is using the top slots, and we can still pull the harness out quite a bit if we loosen it.
 

HEVY

New member
This is what's left on the second to top slot.
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cryswilkins

New member
Hmm, thanks that makes more sense. I am so used to our MA that I was really surprised that there was so little adjuster strap left after it was tightened.

I am going to need another seat for MILs car within the next 6 months, and this seat is one of the ones I am looking at. She really liked it. She cried when I took her out, lol.
 

Heather98012

New member
IIRC, someone on here had that problem when it first came out & she did have it routed incorrectly. I think this was in the first month or so the Nauti was available.
 

Kat_Momof3

New member
the way that the harnesses thread in the back, going up the plastic tubes, you get more harness to work with as the harness gets moved higher... so don't worry about it.

when it gets to the top slots, it doesn't go up the tubes at all... just straight over the red rollers...

so even though you have only about 6" of harness adjuster left when the straps are tight now, you will still have that much when you move them up, as you'll gain a couple inches of strap with each set of slots you go up.

Not sure if that makes sense, but it's the best I can do without pulling my nauti out and taking pictures.
 

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