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Removing Bench Seats & Adding Front & Rear Decks
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<blockquote data-quote="Shaugh" data-source="post: 400311" data-attributes="member: 19781"><p>A boat that's built like yours relies heavily on the seats and knees (the angled brackets) for keeping the boat from flexing when in rough water. as long as you replace that same degree of structure tying the sides together with your new decking you should be ok taking the seats out... just add floatation anywhere in the dead space you don't use under the decking and you'll be fine. Calculate the number of cubic inches of floatation you take out and be sure you put that much back in somewhere.</p><p></p><p>Air means your seats are probably just hollow aluminum not filled with foam. Doesn't matter.. just figure out how many cubic inches there is in the seat.. length x width x height.. and put that much foam under the decking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shaugh, post: 400311, member: 19781"] A boat that's built like yours relies heavily on the seats and knees (the angled brackets) for keeping the boat from flexing when in rough water. as long as you replace that same degree of structure tying the sides together with your new decking you should be ok taking the seats out... just add floatation anywhere in the dead space you don't use under the decking and you'll be fine. Calculate the number of cubic inches of floatation you take out and be sure you put that much back in somewhere. Air means your seats are probably just hollow aluminum not filled with foam. Doesn't matter.. just figure out how many cubic inches there is in the seat.. length x width x height.. and put that much foam under the decking. [/QUOTE]
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