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Help with seats
Kindervb	#1  Posted on 03/25/13 - 11:21 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 26 Comments: 0 Joined: 06/16/12	I want to mount a couple of folding seats to the bench seat on my 15 Sport GLS. The problem that I have is a previous owner put an access hatch in the seat to access the gas tank under the seat, the hatch is mounted in a way that I feel will interfere with mounting the seats. There is a picture of the hatch on my personal page the last image. I ordered a couple of Tempress seats with the quick disconnect bases and they should be here this week. The access hatch does not need to be this big and I have been looking for some smaller ones online and even thought about going with an 8’ round ones to replace this. The issue I have is how best to fix what is there so I can mount the seats, add a new access hatch and have it look decent. I have done some fiberglass work but nothing like this and the oprtion to take it somewhere to get it fixed is not something I can do. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
tedious	#2  Posted on 03/25/13 - 11:42 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 1072 Comments: 2 Joined: 09/07/08	How about a wood or starboard seat that sits on top of your existing one? You could hinge this so the whole thing would flip backward to fuel up using the existing opening. It would have the additional advantage of a little extra seat height. Tim
Kindervb	#3  Posted on 03/25/13 - 7:18 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 26 Comments: 0 Joined: 06/16/12	I was thinking of using starboard not sure about hinging it. The height would help the bench is too low for me that is part of why I want to add seats.
tedious	#4  Posted on 03/27/13 - 5:41 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 1072 Comments: 2 Joined: 09/07/08	If hinging doesn't seem right, you could just rip out the existing hatch completely and fasten a piece of starboard over the entire thwart. Then mount the seats and the new, smaller hatch on the Starboard. By the way, I have found eBay to be a very good source for single pieces of Starboard.. Tim
Kindervb	#5  Posted on 03/27/13 - 1:20 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 26 Comments: 0 Joined: 06/16/12	The more I have looked at what I have I think covering with Starboard is the way to go, I picked up a new access hatch 8" round and thanks for the tip on Ebay, I picked up a 1/4" piece 24x54 for $45. the seats should be here tomorrow so if the weather is decent next week I can get going on this.
Kindervb	#6  Posted on 04/01/13 - 5:49 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 26 Comments: 0 Joined: 06/16/12	Got all the parts in and got the starboard cut to size then used a round over bit in the router to ease all the edges, cut in the new 8" access hatch and then got the seats mounted. I am really happy with how it turned out and how much more comfortable it will to run the boat. Images of the finished job are on my personal page.
Bake	#7  Posted on 04/02/13 - 4:38 AM
Member Personal Page Project Albums Posts: 902 Comments: 8 Joined: 01/30/06	Looks good. My brother in law installed captians chairs on his 15.He loved them.