One of the vendors (Hudson Boat Works) at the Joy of Sculling Coaches conference that I attended this weekend alerted me to the fact that there are now gender specific rowing shell seats. After over a YEAR of pain around my right sits bone it dawned on me that my aggressive rowing practices in a Swift Racing single may have been caused by the seat. The Hudson single is one of the first boats I ever rowed at the Mid-Hudson Rowing Association sculling clinics held by Bill Davies. I was told this weekend that the boat did not belong to the Poughkeepsie club but rather it is Bill Davies privately owned boat. Since then I have noticed that Mahe Drysdale (Olympic champion and five-time World champion in the single sculls) uses a Hudson single.
So I was going to speak to this vendor at their booth but got side-tracked and told by the WINTECH vendor (huh?) that the best gender-specific seats are by Croker. I spoke to Greg Doyle at length about my sits bones problems and vowed to buy his seats for my boats (at least for my women rowers). Check out the page on gender-specific seats (mysteriously the Hudson website either deleted the page I saw about gender specific seats or is updating it with better information):
https://www.crokeroars.com/seats

https://www.hudsonboatworks.com/boat-features/gender-specific-seats