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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VTCrestliner" data-source="post: 484898" data-attributes="member: 31356">ThanksGregorV!Between rain storms today I stripped the carpeting off of the existing wood seats. I really don't want to sit on water-soaked carpeting for the maiden voyage -- that will be tomorrow if the rain holds off. I don't understand why somebody would want to put carpeting on wooden skiff seats. This stuff wasn't even indoor-outdoor carpeting. I think it was t was just house carpeting remnants, held down with rusty roofing nails. One seat was oak, the others softwood.[ATTACH=full]109854[/ATTACH]The middle seat was in the worst shape. It had come adrift of its support cleat, and somehow got wedged down under the cleat and on top of the flotation chamber -- which was loose. Everything was wedged together, so I'm going to leave it for tomorrow's outing, and probably saw the wood out when I replace the seats.[ATTACH=full]109855[/ATTACH]The middle seat has also apparently been moved a couple of times. There are two rows of 6 rivet plugs, forward of the seat where the seat support cleats were probably attached at a couple other points in this boat's history. The present one must be the third location. Also two rivet holes further up the sides where I believe a (missing) curved seat bracket must once have come down to the original seat location.[ATTACH=full]109856[/ATTACH]</blockquote>