Re: Chieftain Raised floor or not?
Mine has raised floor under the driver passenger seats because the fuel tanks are there. If I had no fuel tanks I would still want raised floor and create storage.
I personally would not raise the floor because in rough weather you have a harder time falling out of the boat. I almost fell out a few years ago when I leaned over the boat to release a fish and feet slipped on a wet/fishy floor.
I have thought about if I redid the floor in the cabin to actually lower the cabin floor if possible by a few inches to give more head room. Leave the seats at their same height. But now since I have an infloor fish box in the cabin I would not lower the floor in the cabin either.
I really like that I have my cabin door swing into the cabin. Make it nice for fishing to leave the cabin door open and you can still use the passenger seat.
I modified my extra seats as fold down as shown in one of the pictures, they used to have legs as shown in another picture. Love the fold down modification.
