1974 Sea Ray rear seating help

[mrsokee]

I've just about got the interior to a point I'm happy with for this year, but I'm stumped on the rear seating. You can see in my boat that all I have is a little 2" wood support that someone else glued to the hull, while in a completed boat (image gratefully rec'd from iboats poster!), there is a different, larger interior mounting piece for the seat support. I have absolutely NO idea what to do here. I can't screw anything to the hull, I'm not sure of the thickness of the floor at that point - probably 3/4" - 1" plywood. I am at a loss. Can anyone help?

 

[mrsokee]

Re: 1974 Sea Ray rear seating help

bump for help please? Summer is almost over

 

[oops!]

Re: 1974 Sea Ray rear seating help

i can walk you right thru it......but i need bigger pics.......and what do you want the interior to look like....

more in a sec

 

[oops!]

Re: 1974 Sea Ray rear seating help

the rear jump seats were placed between the dog house.

the bases were constructed of peices of plywood that came off the rear bulkhead...forward to midway up the dog house....then at a 90 degree to the side hull of the boat.

a quick fix is to make the bases.....and use "L" brackets to hold them togeather....then use more "L" brackets to screw them to the deck...(floor)....

this will get you thru the season.....

however a more permanant solution is to make the seat bases...then fiberglass them to the deck and the side of the hull.....

it will reqiuire you to peel back the carpet and the vynal on the side of the hull....then glass to that......but it will be there for a long time....

there is more to it than that.....but if you wish to go the glassing route.....it is easy.....but will take one full day.

cheers
oops

 

[mrsokee]

Re: 1974 Sea Ray rear seating help

Thank you! The pictures are bigger if you click on them. All my pics upload like this I don't know why.

I may end up just making some boxes for this year, but what has me stumped more than anything is: if you look at the finished picture, where my arrow points to -- that is the part that I don't have and I don't know what it's mounted to. Is this coming up vertically from the deck and only a spacer (fibreglassed in place?) between the vertical piece and the hull -- maybe to be used as a shelf later?

The seat bases are supposed to be removable for access -- the battery charger and battery are behind there along with a few other items of interest.

I'm thinking maybe the guy that started this project was even more clueless than I am and those pieces that he GLUED to the hull are either not supposed to be there at all, are in the wrong place or are the wrong size.

I haven't the faintest how to work with fibreglass, (haven't even seen it since teenage years and car repair times) but I'm going to have to learn for this winter or next spring I guess

Any specific ideas on that bracket mounting piece? THanks.