Monterey Dreams
Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2011
- Messages
- 409
Re: 1959 Glasscat Catamaran Project Underway.
Cowboy: Good to see you around, I wondered what happened to you. Course, being in high school and all, I figured you must have got a new girlfriend or 10 to keep you busy.
JDA, thanks for dropping by my friend. Please don?t give up on yours (I was sooooo bummed out thinking I got another dud motor 3 in a row, I really was about to toss mine also, a boat ?aint much fun with no engine), you will complete yours also if you give it a little time.?..and your little car looks great. How ?bout flames on the bow of the boat!
Woody: I been racking my brains trying to figure out seating (without going yours and JDA style) I do not have that kind of talent at all. I went to my little boat shop to drop off the core for the battery I got last week. The owner of the shop was ?chopping? an old boat for the dumpster. He already took out the motor, etc. I asked him if he wanted to sell the seats to me (since they are about to go into the dumpster anyhow and they are plain as yogurt white so they will not look too out of place on my boat). He replied that if I bring a few crescents tomorrow on my lunch break and pull them off myself I can have them for free. They come from a little walk-through, and are the type where there is one seat sitting forward and one facing backwards sharing a single back rest. The bases are wood and glassed into the floor so basically I have to build a wooden ?box? to sit under them as a base, I basically take only the top portions from him.
My question to you guys. If I use these seats I am going to have to build some sort of platform for them to sit on (otherwise I will not see over the cabin wall). Have you ever seen such a thing?
Will it be silly to have the chairs so high up in the air? I mean will it make the boat more top heavy to have 4 people probably 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 feet off the deck? For me since I was going to basically be the only driver I was planning on the driver standing with a sort of padded leaning post to keep from falling backwards (but a seat would be a little better).
The platform idea could be kinda nice, I have been thinking about building cabinets under the seats and places for Ice chests (with your hidden hinges JDA).
But if I do them I am going to lose almost all of my deck space and end up probably with a narrow walkway through the center portion of the boat.
Good night guys and what do you think?
Dave
Cowboy: Good to see you around, I wondered what happened to you. Course, being in high school and all, I figured you must have got a new girlfriend or 10 to keep you busy.
JDA, thanks for dropping by my friend. Please don?t give up on yours (I was sooooo bummed out thinking I got another dud motor 3 in a row, I really was about to toss mine also, a boat ?aint much fun with no engine), you will complete yours also if you give it a little time.?..and your little car looks great. How ?bout flames on the bow of the boat!
Woody: I been racking my brains trying to figure out seating (without going yours and JDA style) I do not have that kind of talent at all. I went to my little boat shop to drop off the core for the battery I got last week. The owner of the shop was ?chopping? an old boat for the dumpster. He already took out the motor, etc. I asked him if he wanted to sell the seats to me (since they are about to go into the dumpster anyhow and they are plain as yogurt white so they will not look too out of place on my boat). He replied that if I bring a few crescents tomorrow on my lunch break and pull them off myself I can have them for free. They come from a little walk-through, and are the type where there is one seat sitting forward and one facing backwards sharing a single back rest. The bases are wood and glassed into the floor so basically I have to build a wooden ?box? to sit under them as a base, I basically take only the top portions from him.
My question to you guys. If I use these seats I am going to have to build some sort of platform for them to sit on (otherwise I will not see over the cabin wall). Have you ever seen such a thing?
Will it be silly to have the chairs so high up in the air? I mean will it make the boat more top heavy to have 4 people probably 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 feet off the deck? For me since I was going to basically be the only driver I was planning on the driver standing with a sort of padded leaning post to keep from falling backwards (but a seat would be a little better).
The platform idea could be kinda nice, I have been thinking about building cabinets under the seats and places for Ice chests (with your hidden hinges JDA).
But if I do them I am going to lose almost all of my deck space and end up probably with a narrow walkway through the center portion of the boat.
Good night guys and what do you think?
Dave
