Hello All - I'm considering buying an older model Catalina 250WB but I really want Stern Pulpit seats. Catalina Direct sells replacements for newer 250's (I think they came standard after 97), does anyone know if these can be added to older Catalina boats?
Adding Stern Perch/Pulpit seats to a 95 Catalina 250 - can it be done?
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Your boat is not listed, but Zarcor can custom make them "at no additional charge" .
I think those require Zarcor require som sort of existing rail - there is very little of that on the older 250. The Catalina Direct Pulpit are "free standing" that mount directly to the fiberglass. I just don't know if the hull shape is similar enough.
How bad do you want seats? Railmaker has a stern setup. Not sure if it fits your year.
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When I had to deal with straightening/repairing my stern pulpit, I contacted "RailMakers" in Everett. They were terrific. As a part of the new build (only about $100 difference between new vs. repair of old pulpit) I had them add seats in the corners.
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Those look sweet. What sort of bracket did you use to attach the seats to the horizontal parts of the rail?
The teak definitely helps them to look upscale, but they're a bit crude, actually. The attachments to the rail were stainless u-bolts through stainless steel flat stock. Then the line of screw heads that runs diagonally was a stainless steel square tube (pretty small, to try to keep it from being visible) to help support the seat so that it didn't just split along the grain. I'm also afraid that I can't tell you how well they held up, because we moved to a bigger boat a year or two later. They were a nice addition for a boat of that size. Good luck!
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Boss. Looking at the Sosound seat it appears to be supported be a sling made of SSstock running under the seat attached to the rails with U-bolts.
As an alternative you can weld a cross bar to the Pulpit tube. Add some welded tabs to the tubes. Screws or bolts thru tabs up into your seats and you have a seat with hidden screws that is secured from beneath. If not satisfied you can always thru bolt the seats to the frame and tabs. In this design the seat sits on the rail not inside the space on the rail. If the board is thick enough it will support the seat of most guests.
As an alternative you can weld a cross bar to the Pulpit tube. Add some welded tabs to the tubes. Screws or bolts thru tabs up into your seats and you have a seat with hidden screws that is secured from beneath. If not satisfied you can always thru bolt the seats to the frame and tabs. In this design the seat sits on the rail not inside the space on the rail. If the board is thick enough it will support the seat of most guests.
@jssailem has it right. I couldn't find any pictures of the under side, or work in progress, but I did mark up the original picture that I posted. The long diagonal square tube was bolted to the two corner tabs, which carried most of the weight. I didn't know if we would like the seats or use them, and I have a history of cobbling together cheap prototypes of ideas to test them out before throwing $$$ at it. If I had used Starboard or some other synthetic material, I don't think that I'd have used the diagonal square tube, but I might have used slightly larger tabs at the three rail attachment points.
