Boy, what a pain
So far I have about 20-30 hours into the 3D model for the seats, then got busy. This as I expected, is going to be very difficult because there are so many compound curves. First I have taken tons of dimensions and angles and curves of the seat rails and they have compound angles. Second I have taken dimensions and angles and curves of the stern of the boat. Almost nothing is horizontal or vertical and the stern both curves and rises at the same time as you go toward the cabin. Then of course the hull has a changing angle outward as it goes to the rubrail. So that's my rant.
So....I keep modifying the tubes by small increments of angles and lengths and truncated radii as I think they are, to fit the shape of the boat curve, rise and angle as I think it is, to make them fit. My fear is that I will finally get a shape that I think works and then it is made and doesn't fit! I would hate that! I know we had to tweek most of the feet on mine to make it fit, but still...
Too bad we don't know someone with a laser measuring device like they use to make those custom car mats or the Museum of Natural History is using to make the models of Lincolns death mask etc.
I'll keep working on it because I like a challenge and because I hate to quit something I start.