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By McKenzieDriftBoat.com
Front Seat Repair
This past season was a little hard on my boat. So many passengers, so many fish, so much fun... put a strain on the front seat - which developed a stress fracture on the back cross beam.
To repair it, I bought a 5' plank of yellow cedar, ripped it twice, added a mahogany racing stripe just for fun, epoxied, sanded, varnished and installed...
Finished and ready for another season of steelhead hi-jinx. The grain in this piece of cedar is very nice but a little hard to see in the picture...
GH
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Permalink Reply by Rick Newman on
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Wonderful work! You set a very high standard brother! Inquiring minds want to know, how's the "Big Ditch" boat coming?
Rick Newman
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Permalink Reply by Greg Hatten on
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Thanks Rick... got a couple of additional "boat fixes" to complete before I think about the "next" boat. Randy has the line drawings and lots of pics. I'll let you know when we start....
GH
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Permalink Reply by Jason Knight on
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Nice repair Greg. I never realized how pretty that seat lid was because it usually has the cover on it. sweet. Your seat pad/cover is pretty nice though, thinking of doing something like that on our boat for this coming season.
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Hi Jason,
Merry Christmas!! Yup - the seat lid is probably my favorite piece of wood on the whole boat and no one ever sees it. Got a new favorite - that piece of Yellow Cedar I just put on the passenger seat has beautiful depth to it...
I've been tinkering in the boat shop quite a bit - it has rained for 5 weeks straight here.
Hope all is well. Take care, man. I highly recommend the padded seat - adds comfort and warmth for the passengers when chasing steelhead or getting soaked by a "sloppy" oarsman in a big Class III... (still feel really really bad about that)
GH
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Merry Christmas to you and yours as well!
For the record I would take that soaker any time if it meant we would get float the McKenzie with you again some time. That was awesome, and I can tell you Christine absolutely loved and appreciated the experience as well.
Keep the boat progress coming man. My tinkering has been limited to doing things around the house. (Apparently buying a house that was built in the 20's requires a certain degree of work! haha)
We have been getting snow and cold weather so we have been off the river for the past month.
Here is a pic of a nice one we landed last trip. It was cold cold cold, but we forgot all about the temp when this fish tailwalked and raised hell all over the river
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