Neighbors of ours sold us their pontoon and we love using it throughout the summer.
Obviously fishing is something we love to do!
This past fall and winter we thought we had it covered very well. We thought wrong!!
We had a Huge tarp, Cattle panel, and Tons of Bungee Cords.
It totally failed, not from the snow or the ice as much, but mostly the wind took it down...literally.
So this spring when we took the remaining tarp off, the seats were a lot worse than they were previously.
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Fabric Staple Gun
So the process begins.
First step: Pick out a fabric. I went with 100 percent polyester indoor/outdoor fabric. You can go with marine, but for us that was way above our budget. For all of our seats I used about 9 yards of fabric total.
Second step: Make sure that your current boat seats are dry. When they are cracked like ours were, rain water took days to dry out.
Third Step: Wrap them in a garbage bags. This may seem silly.. However the fabric will repel but will ultimately soak back into the previous padding and then you could have a mildew smelling seat. So wrap it up. It literally takes minutes.(keep in mind:this is a temporary solution look better). When completely redoing your boat seats including the foam insert; you will not be wrapping your seats in garbage bags.
Fourth Step: Lay out fabric in a flat clean area. Using our wood floor really helped because the lines in the floor assured me I was keeping it straight.
Fifth Step: Set the seat on the fabric face side down. Then staple the garbage bag a few times to flatten it out with a staple gun to the wood surface on the back side.
Sixth Step: Measure a solid 8 extra inches on the sides and 10 extra inches top and bottom to ensure there is enough fabric to pull back and staple.
Seventh Step: Cut and then staple the fabric, while tucking pleats and remaining loose fabric. Secure the fabric to wood backing with staple gun.
Eighth Step: Flip over and make sure your lines are straight and you are happy with the flatness of the fabric.
Ninth Step: Do steps three through eight to all the seat cushions.
Tenth Step: Go place all of your new boat seats on the boat and take some great pictures to admire your work.
Here is a step by step video below of how we made this happen for about $70.00.
Please keep in mind as stated above this is a one season fix until you can afford to completely redo all of the foam and possibly the wooden board base depending on how bad the seat condition currently is. In the mean time with the help of this blog and video; your cushions will look new for the summer season.
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