On 2/9/10 10:39 AM, Tim wrote:
Ugh!

I went and pulled the tire off my small boat to get it changed out,
and I thought while I was there, I'd look in to see if my first aid
kit was still in good shape. I'll probably replace it too, but...

I went to sit down on the right seat and it felt a bi spungy. Oh,oh...


I looked underneath it and there were like dry rotted plywood
splinters under the box itself. I knew it was coming last year, but
now they're deteriorating pretty hard. So I looked around to see what
factory made seats are looking like, and well, I found conventional
seats that arn't in the same color scheme as what my boat is, and I'd
have to have them re-apolstered to match. It's a nice little boat and
i'd like to keep it that way. so what should I do? Make new boxes? or
buy the crate stuff.

Now another thing, I've always thought these seats were sort of small,
and i'm not looking to make a livingroom couch out of them, but I
suppose that while I'm wrting this I'm still convincing myself that
making the boxes might be a bigger PIA than buying them.


Decisions, decisions.

BTW, the boat is a 1983 Chris Craft 169 scorpion.


So, the scorpion stung you, eh? Make new boxes out of marine ply, and
fiberglass them. Grady and Parker do it (under the decks for the boat's
stringers and cross beams)...and if it is done right, it lasts nearly as
long as the ink on Sarah Palin's palm.

Alternately, do the economy some good and buy a new boat. :)