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Anybody here ever converted a bench seat into a livewell?
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<blockquote data-quote="jigngrub" data-source="post: 370336" data-attributes="member: 6657"><p>Bench seats aren't designed to withstand the lateral forces that filling it with water would create. Other than bowing the front and back sides out, the weight of the water will eventually weaken the rivets that hold the sides to the hull and you'll end up with a leaky livewell and leaky boat.</p><p></p><p>Here's the livewell tubs from Cabelas:</p><p>https://www.cabelas.com/product/Cabelas-Dry-StorLivewells/738031.uts?Ntk=AllProducts&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch%2F%3FN%3D%26No%3D0%26Ntk%3DAllProducts%26Ntt%3Dlivewell%26Ntx%3Dmode%252Bmatchallpartial%26WTz_l%3DHeader%253BSearch-All%2BProducts%26WTz_st%3D%26WTz_stype%3DSP%26form_state%3DsearchForm%26recordsPerPage%3D20%26search%3Dlivewell%26searchTypeByFilter%3DAllProducts%26x%3D13%26y%3D5&Ntt=livewell&WTz_l=Header%3BSearch-All+Products</p><p></p><p>Just because your boat "seems" fine with the missing structural components, doesn't mean it's going to stay "fine". Your boat will weaken over a matter of time and you'll start having problems later... loosening rivets, hull cracks and that sort of stuff.</p><p></p><p>Noise reduction is a secondary benefit for floatation foam, the primary benefit is to keep your boat from sinking to the bottom leaving you floundering and flapping around on the surface screaming for help and trying not to join your boat on the bottom.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jigngrub, post: 370336, member: 6657"] Bench seats aren't designed to withstand the lateral forces that filling it with water would create. Other than bowing the front and back sides out, the weight of the water will eventually weaken the rivets that hold the sides to the hull and you'll end up with a leaky livewell and leaky boat. Here's the livewell tubs from Cabelas: https://www.cabelas.com/product/Cabelas-Dry-StorLivewells/738031.uts?Ntk=AllProducts&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch%2F%3FN%3D%26No%3D0%26Ntk%3DAllProducts%26Ntt%3Dlivewell%26Ntx%3Dmode%252Bmatchallpartial%26WTz_l%3DHeader%253BSearch-All%2BProducts%26WTz_st%3D%26WTz_stype%3DSP%26form_state%3DsearchForm%26recordsPerPage%3D20%26search%3Dlivewell%26searchTypeByFilter%3DAllProducts%26x%3D13%26y%3D5&Ntt=livewell&WTz_l=Header%3BSearch-All+Products Just because your boat "seems" fine with the missing structural components, doesn't mean it's going to stay "fine". Your boat will weaken over a matter of time and you'll start having problems later... loosening rivets, hull cracks and that sort of stuff. Noise reduction is a secondary benefit for floatation foam, the primary benefit is to keep your boat from sinking to the bottom leaving you floundering and flapping around on the surface screaming for help and trying not to join your boat on the bottom. [/QUOTE]
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