Seat repair

[PHISH]

I have to change the wood in the lower part of my seat. The part that your butt sits on. It was ruined from water.
Should I use regular pressure treated wood or is there something else? I have a vinyl cushion that goes on top.
Should I just wood glue and nail or screw it to the backrest and armrest? Its the actual structure of the seat, not the cushion.

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[chris_lacey]

Hey Matt, the structure of your seat bases is like a sandwich. Plywood/fibreglass/plywood, the plywood is screwed together. The fibreglass is very thin (read:light). The sandwich makes it rigid.

The wood that is in there was supplied by Eagle Upholstery, in Burlington. What would be best is this: Use 1/4 exterior plywood painted with thinned resin (with hardner, of course). The resin soaks in before it hardens. It would never rot again, and because of that, the plywood could be bonded to the glass making it stronger yet. And you could still staple the seat covers to it.

My $.02 worth.

[captcarb]

When I do that again, I am going to use some sort of synthetic material. They put Poly on the bottom of airboats down here and drive them across paved roads. It is tough stuff and can't rot. There are many such materials out there and some of the boat companies (like correct craft) are using them in seats to eliminate rot.

jim

[mr_velocity]

King Starboard or Starlite XL and its forever. You'll need to do a lot of searching to find the best price. I've done the seats in the 41 and the little cat using this stuff.

[PHISH]

Sounds good chris

[Tom D.]

Chris is right. Mine were soaked 3/4" plywood. I think I droped 50lbs. just changing the wood.:eek: . Pull the staples, easy job.

Tom

[hsbob]

use polester glue on the wood [grallia.....]. and use treated wood. get the wood several weeks ahead of you need and let it dry out. be sure to weight the wood so it stays flat.

[PHISH]

Use 1/4 exterior plywood painted with thinned resin (with hardner, of course). The resin soaks in before it hardens. It would never rot again,
But the hardner resin stinks and I can't do it in the cold can I?

[mr_velocity]

Wood stinks, don't put wood back into the boat. No matter how well you seal it every staple will allow water back into the wood. Why use an inferior product then try and band-aid it to make it last.

The starlite xl is really easy to work with, can staple it, is lighter than wood and it will NEVER soak up an ounce of water. Best of all, you can work with it even on the coldest Canadian days or nights :D