I plan to add a captins chair behind the wheel, I removed the decking and will be replacing it with wood. I am not sure what kind of wood to use. I need the wood to be hard enough to hold the chair/ mount. I also plan on adding inteirer wood to match my 89 30 hunter
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Hi Matthew, too many unknowns...
here. What kind of decking did you remove and how was it attached? How thick was the old material and will the new be the same dimension? What kind of interior wood do you need to match? What kind of mount and how many mount points does the captain's chair use? What type or kind of fastener do you plan on using? Do you plan on sealing the new material or leaving it unfinished? Terry
here. What kind of decking did you remove and how was it attached? How thick was the old material and will the new be the same dimension? What kind of interior wood do you need to match? What kind of mount and how many mount points does the captain's chair use? What type or kind of fastener do you plan on using? Do you plan on sealing the new material or leaving it unfinished? Terry
Your H30 looks similar to our H28 that had a lift.
out skipper's seat so that you could walk through the transom. This rounded seat was made of FRP with quarter inch thick by one and one half inch wide teak slats. Is it this removeable skipper's seat that you plan on mounting this chair to? Terry
out skipper's seat so that you could walk through the transom. This rounded seat was made of FRP with quarter inch thick by one and one half inch wide teak slats. Is it this removeable skipper's seat that you plan on mounting this chair to? Terry
Captain's chair ??? You don't need it!
Matthew, Yep, identical to my Hunter 28. My first question would be: Why do you want to clutter up the cockpit with a captain's seat? ... Wonderful things in power boats, of course, but sailboats have an alarming tendancy to heel under sail. And all those troublesome travellers, winches, clutches, halyards and sheets mean that you're rarely seated for very long. To me, a captain's seat is just one more thing to trip over. That little rounded seat that drops in the slot in the transom is so you can shift your butt up and down the curve, compensating for the heel of the boat and always keeping your bottom on a point more or less parallel to the surface of the water. By the way, you'll find off-set slots in the base of that transom seat so you can hang it on the stern rail when using the walk-through transom. All that said, my favored position at the helm is standing, or seated on the downhill side (makes it easier to see under the head sail). Those wooden slats in the seat are teak, and sanded and varnished, they look great. A tip: If you decide to remove them for refinishing, number the back of each slat so you can reinstall them in the original order. It will make the job easier, trust me. The interior wood is generally 3/8" teak marine plywood with one finished surface. Fiddle rails and various trim is solid teak stock; cabin sole is alternating strips of teak and holly. And one more thing, that decking that you're going to remove and replace with wood, has slots in it (scuppers) that allow the cockpit to drain if you take a boarding sea (it will happen). In your redesign, don't eliminate the scuppers. Also, there's a round plate in there that allows access to head of the rudder stock for the emergency tiller. Don't cover that up! If your steering linkage ever fails - and it will - you aren't going to have time to remove that wooden deck before you pile onto a lee shore. Oh... one more thing, if you have a pedestal seat in the slot, you won't be able to use the emergency tiller anyway - no place for it to swing. My advice is leave yacht design to the experts. There's really no place for a pedestal seat on a Hunter 30. Robert 1992 Hunter 28 Watauga Lake, TN. Robert
Matthew, Yep, identical to my Hunter 28. My first question would be: Why do you want to clutter up the cockpit with a captain's seat? ... Wonderful things in power boats, of course, but sailboats have an alarming tendancy to heel under sail. And all those troublesome travellers, winches, clutches, halyards and sheets mean that you're rarely seated for very long. To me, a captain's seat is just one more thing to trip over. That little rounded seat that drops in the slot in the transom is so you can shift your butt up and down the curve, compensating for the heel of the boat and always keeping your bottom on a point more or less parallel to the surface of the water. By the way, you'll find off-set slots in the base of that transom seat so you can hang it on the stern rail when using the walk-through transom. All that said, my favored position at the helm is standing, or seated on the downhill side (makes it easier to see under the head sail). Those wooden slats in the seat are teak, and sanded and varnished, they look great. A tip: If you decide to remove them for refinishing, number the back of each slat so you can reinstall them in the original order. It will make the job easier, trust me. The interior wood is generally 3/8" teak marine plywood with one finished surface. Fiddle rails and various trim is solid teak stock; cabin sole is alternating strips of teak and holly. And one more thing, that decking that you're going to remove and replace with wood, has slots in it (scuppers) that allow the cockpit to drain if you take a boarding sea (it will happen). In your redesign, don't eliminate the scuppers. Also, there's a round plate in there that allows access to head of the rudder stock for the emergency tiller. Don't cover that up! If your steering linkage ever fails - and it will - you aren't going to have time to remove that wooden deck before you pile onto a lee shore. Oh... one more thing, if you have a pedestal seat in the slot, you won't be able to use the emergency tiller anyway - no place for it to swing. My advice is leave yacht design to the experts. There's really no place for a pedestal seat on a Hunter 30. Robert 1992 Hunter 28 Watauga Lake, TN. Robert
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