Olde School
Well-Known Member
Well done!
Until last summer I had a sweet 16' fg boat that needed to fill several roles. My fishing days and my lake days.
For the sleeper seats:
My solution was to screw flat plates approx 1" x 3" x 1/4" into the floor. These plates each had a threaded hole in the center.
Then I mounted angle brackets inside the sleeper seat boxes. To install the sleeper seats for family lake days, it only took 4 bolts in each sleeper base and voila!
For the pedestal bases I got round base plates and installed them, one on each side of the floor. The pedestals screwed down to these with 6 bolts each.
When the pedestal bases were used, the 4 flat plates that the sleepers mounted to were almost unnoticeable - I was smart enough to have bevelled the edges ;-)
To go from one seat style to the other only took a few minutes. Ironically, the main arrangement we used ended up being a pedestal for the helm and a sleeper on the port side.
Sure opened up the dance floor.
This made overnighting on the boat quite easy. Simply go out with the pedestals, when done for the day, remove the pedestals and tuck them under the bow. You now have an almost flat floor that is made comfy with a thermarest.
Hope this makes sense?
Until last summer I had a sweet 16' fg boat that needed to fill several roles. My fishing days and my lake days.
For the sleeper seats:
My solution was to screw flat plates approx 1" x 3" x 1/4" into the floor. These plates each had a threaded hole in the center.
Then I mounted angle brackets inside the sleeper seat boxes. To install the sleeper seats for family lake days, it only took 4 bolts in each sleeper base and voila!
For the pedestal bases I got round base plates and installed them, one on each side of the floor. The pedestals screwed down to these with 6 bolts each.
When the pedestal bases were used, the 4 flat plates that the sleepers mounted to were almost unnoticeable - I was smart enough to have bevelled the edges ;-)
To go from one seat style to the other only took a few minutes. Ironically, the main arrangement we used ended up being a pedestal for the helm and a sleeper on the port side.
Sure opened up the dance floor.
This made overnighting on the boat quite easy. Simply go out with the pedestals, when done for the day, remove the pedestals and tuck them under the bow. You now have an almost flat floor that is made comfy with a thermarest.
Hope this makes sense?
