UV Resistant Dingy Seat

[Black Diamond]

I have bought two of the generally available, padded dinghy seats with underseat storage. Each one has lasted approximately 1 year before the sun rots the cloth (its a 600 denier poly which is apparently not UV resistant). I've sewn them back together about 5 times and put a sunbrella cover on the padded seat to cover rips and rot. The Sunbrella seat is the only thing that's holding together at this point:-)

I refuse to buy another version of this poor quality garbage.

Does anyone know of a padded, UV resistant, dinghy seat that has underseat storage (oil for the outboard, dinghy pump, tools, etc.)? Something water resistant and of decent quality?

Rick
S/V Black Diamond
Hylas 49-057
Portsmouth, RI

[barnakiel]

Try making one in varnished marine plywood and make an acrylic canvas bag to go with it. This setup will last ages and is easily serviceable.

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[Black Diamond]

The issue is not the seat. The seat is fiberglass and aluminum. Its an AB 10.6 RIB and plenty durable. The issue is having some underseat storage and a padded seat for my wife or guests.

The stuff you can buy that goes OVER the seat and attaches with Velcro is usually crap. I wanted to know if there was something better out there before I resorted to making something myself.

Rick

[barnakiel]

I am afraid you will have to restore to some form of acrylic cover - on our boat thick Dacron canvas (I re-use older sails to make ad-hoc cheap biminis) last max 18 months. At the same time, our 10 y.o. Sunbrella (acrylic) cockpit curtains look perfectly fine - we had to redo the stitches once and that's that.

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[rtbates]

I may be missing something here, but you mentioned sewing sunbrella as a patch so why not simply make a sunbrella seat cover??

You mentioned that you could sew?