Ray
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- C Dory Year
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- 25 Cruiser
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- Seaweed
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I have TONS of mods I am doing all at once over the winter. This is the first one that I have gotten done. I will post each one to other "Mods" albums as I get them done.
It's a shame that there is no way to add overall text to an album to describe what was going on with all of the photos. I tried to add some stuff under each photo, but there's really some overall album text that is needed. Any ideas?
"I wanted to raise my seating position up by a few inches (I'm short) and also to have the seat swivel and face athwartships some of the time. The factory helm seat was to wide to be able to swivel.
The new seat is an Attwood Centric seat. The back corners are somewhat cut away and allow the swivel to happen without hitting the galley behind. The seat was a few inches higher than the factory seat, so I was off to a good start. Next was the swivel.
I started with a Garelick locking slider and swivel, but the height was WAY too much with the Attwood Centric seat. Instead I just bought a "plain ol'" locking swivel - $19.
The Centric seat has two issues that I did not foresee. First, it appears that it is meant to be mounted to a pre-sloped (aft) deck, as sitting in it when level it feels like you want to get dumped out forward. Second, the sides are kind of sloped away. This is not a huge issue, but it would have been nice to have something on the sides. In hindsight, it looks like the Centeric II seat may solve both of these problems, but maybe at the expense of size - maybe such that it would no longer swivel.
To compensate, I mounted the seat to a 3/4" ply board with some wedges underneath to tilt it back a little. I made sure that the wedges followed the seat around and were not fixed facing forward on the base.
The photos show the various clearances with regards to the wheel and the galley counter. The mount bolted to the cabinet with the same holes that the factory seat used and lined up perfectly this way.
Finally, I used a Teleflex wedge kit to recess the wheel/pump a bit and tilt it up by 20degrees. This gave some really good clearance under/around the wheel from the front edge of the new seat."
Anyway, that's that. Anyone want to buy a pristine condition, charcoal-greay, factory helm seat? :wink: :wink:
Best Regards,
Ray
I have TONS of mods I am doing all at once over the winter. This is the first one that I have gotten done. I will post each one to other "Mods" albums as I get them done.
It's a shame that there is no way to add overall text to an album to describe what was going on with all of the photos. I tried to add some stuff under each photo, but there's really some overall album text that is needed. Any ideas?
"I wanted to raise my seating position up by a few inches (I'm short) and also to have the seat swivel and face athwartships some of the time. The factory helm seat was to wide to be able to swivel.
The new seat is an Attwood Centric seat. The back corners are somewhat cut away and allow the swivel to happen without hitting the galley behind. The seat was a few inches higher than the factory seat, so I was off to a good start. Next was the swivel.
I started with a Garelick locking slider and swivel, but the height was WAY too much with the Attwood Centric seat. Instead I just bought a "plain ol'" locking swivel - $19.
The Centric seat has two issues that I did not foresee. First, it appears that it is meant to be mounted to a pre-sloped (aft) deck, as sitting in it when level it feels like you want to get dumped out forward. Second, the sides are kind of sloped away. This is not a huge issue, but it would have been nice to have something on the sides. In hindsight, it looks like the Centeric II seat may solve both of these problems, but maybe at the expense of size - maybe such that it would no longer swivel.
To compensate, I mounted the seat to a 3/4" ply board with some wedges underneath to tilt it back a little. I made sure that the wedges followed the seat around and were not fixed facing forward on the base.
The photos show the various clearances with regards to the wheel and the galley counter. The mount bolted to the cabinet with the same holes that the factory seat used and lined up perfectly this way.
Finally, I used a Teleflex wedge kit to recess the wheel/pump a bit and tilt it up by 20degrees. This gave some really good clearance under/around the wheel from the front edge of the new seat."
Anyway, that's that. Anyone want to buy a pristine condition, charcoal-greay, factory helm seat? :wink: :wink:
Best Regards,
Ray