Re: Crestliner Sportfish Project
Made some more nice progress this weekend. As planned I more or less finished off the rear casting deck. I still need to do some tweaks on the rear desk but the important stuff is done.
I also bought some new seat pads this past week. The boat originally came with four Tempress seats. As like everything else on this boat, the pads were absolutly shot. However, the plastic seat frames still had some potential. Fortunatly, Tempress sells replacement pads for this style of seat. However, the choices are limited to just a few colors for the low back type seat. After researching the matter I convinced myself that I must have the low back type frame. Sure enough, the pads were delivered and didn't fit right. After contemplating my options, I decided cutting the frames down to fit the pads was my only option. So I took my jigsaw to the seat frames and trimmed off about an inch off the top. It worked fine, I don't think anyone would be the wiser. The color of the seats look sort of white in the attached image, however, they are a nice light gray that will go well with my color scheme. The frames are somewhat washed out from the elements, I may have to hit them with a coat of paint. Overall, I'm quite satisfied with the seats and think they will work out well.
Finishing the rear deck was basically the end of the structural repairs. Everything remaining (except for mounting the motor etc.) is pretty much cosmetic. Hopefully, in the next week or so I can finish off the various interior details, then it's time to paint the hull and finish this seemingly never ending project.
