Though this is a semi-short post, installing the seats proved to be the most frustrating step so far. (Everything before has been a breeze. I consider myself fairly luck). It was 1. Not as easy I thought it would be to get our seats to fit; 2. It took a long time getting our seats in place while we clamped them in; 3. we had to make sure everything was level; and 4. The glue did not dry as quick and as well as I had anticipated.
First, we realized it wasn’t going to be that easy to glue our knees onto our hog (the knee is the piece that our seat sits on), since the plywood is too thin. We cut some small pieces of clear lumber for supports and attached them to the knees. Then we used clamps to squeeze our knees to the hog and sides of the boat.
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| Clamping our knees in. In the foreground, you can see the clamp is squeezing our sideboard and support together. |
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| Keeping the knees in place while the glue dried |
When the knees were secured in place, we glued our seats to the knees (while the boat was still upside down). This too, of course, took many a clamp.
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| Clamping our bow knee to the hog while the glue dried |
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| The middle seat |
A couple posts ago I tried to illustrate what the seats would look like by holding them while my sister snapped a few shots http://werebuildingaboat.blogspot.com/2011/04/quick-summary.html. I think they look much better and secure now.
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