Unfinished seat back on starboard side

[Chesapeake 331]

Hello all!
Still working on the clean up of our Beneteau 331 and I've just now realized that the seat backs on each side are different. The port side has the finished cherry plywood backs, and the starboard side has the plain plywood backs. Does anyone know why both sides aren't the beautiful cherry wood? Less polishing work for me but I'm at a loss.
Thanks!

 

[jssailem]

Hello and welcome.
These are all fictional conjecture:

1. The Manufacturer was running behind schedule. They needed extra workers. The brought in a guy from off the streets and said put in the seat backs. Get it done quickly. He went to the product supply bin and only one beautiful Cherry Wood back was there. knowing that he was new and that he had to meet the high expectations of his supervisor, he grabbed a piece of plywood out of the discard bin. Quickly fashioned it’s a seat back, like he would do at home. Rushed to the boat. Made the install. Ran back to the Supervisor and told him the job was finished. The supervisor was impressed with the quick work and gave the new worker a little bonus. Then when the accounting department added up the costs of the boat they found that there was a little unexplained savings on your boat. No one knew why. So the Accounting department threw an early Friday party with the extra money. And all lived happily ever after.
2. The Previous owner in a fit of rage about his new girlfriend doing the mash with the dock boy smashed a bottle of special edition Dom Perignon Brut Champagne on the beautiful Cherry wood seat back. He said the seatback made him think of the brown cherry wood colored eyes of the new girl he adored. He could not take the grief. Had to rid himself of the seatback... Then he thought of the boat and how his girlfriend looked so attractive in that Cherry wood colored bikini. He was stricken in another fit of rage. He called the nearest broker and said “Take this boat. Sell it to the first person you see.” The broker’s eyes sparkled. Oh boy a fat new commission. But then he saw the smashed cherry wood seat back and his dreams of an easy profit felt like they were vanishing... When just then a wood worker was wandering down the dock carrying a piece of plywood and some wood working tools... “Hey good man. What are you doing caring those wood working tools?” “Oh”, said the worker. “I used to work at Beneteau. They had to lay me off due to the downturn in new boat sales.” “Well do you still have the skills?” said the broker. “Sure what do you need?” Said the worker. “There is this broken cherry wood seat back and I don’t know how...” started the broker. “Say no more. I know just what to do. Used to do this all the time at the factory.” Said the worker

are 2 possibilities.

 

[Chesapeake 331]

Very intriguing...

 

[Will Gilmore]

I think it was the former, but I like the latter explanation better.

It could have been during an ocean crossing when the PO came up on deck to find out why the boat was listing so much to that side only to discover the thick tentacle of a giant squid searching the deck for an easy meal. It grabbed him just as he grabbed a nearby axe and the battle began. The real casualties were the amputated tentacle and the seatback. No cherry plywood available in the Azores, so there you go.

- Will (Dragonfly)

 

[Jackdaw]

Hello and welcome.
These are all fictional conjecture.

LOL funny but amazingly unlikely! ;^)

 

[Chesapeake 331]

Yet another thought provoking answer Will...

 

[Chesapeake 331]

Great video Jackdaw. Pretty sure they forgot to do the other side.

 

[Will Gilmore]

LOL funny but amazingly unlikely! ;^)

So jackdaw,
I know you prefer to deal in facts and try to avoid unreasonable conjecture, but what do you think happened? Your opinion carries some weight around here, so let us know what you think. How does a matching seatback made from cherry plywood not windup as cherry plywood?


- Will (Dragonfly)

 

[Jackdaw]

So jackdaw,
I know you prefer to deal in facts and try to avoid unreasonable conjecture, but what do you think happened? Your opinion carries some weight around here, so let us know what you think. How does a matching seatback made from cherry plywood not windup as cherry plywood?

I have absolutely, positively NO idea. That's why I didn't guess or surmise. ;^)

 

[capta]

When we lost our hatches in a capsize in a hurricane, we used the floor boards and planks from under the bunks, to cover the openings.
Perhaps the PO had a similar incident and used the seat backs?

 

[capta]

LOL funny but amazingly unlikely! ;^)

That was interesting. Good way to keep your citizens employed.

 

[Chesapeake 331]

Definitely not the case here.

 

[Will Gilmore]

I have absolutely, positively NO idea. That's why I didn't guess or surmise. ;^)

Inside every engineer is an architect dying to get out . engineers actually make better architects than architects, if they can get creative. Jackdaw, I know you have a creative side. You need to let it out and spread its wings once in a while.
I think everyone here on SBO wants to know what jackdaw's creative side looks like.
You can do it, I know you can. No need to be shy, you are among friends.

- Will (Dragonfly)

 

[Davidasailor26]

2. The Previous owner

I strongly suspect you have at least that part of the story right.

 

[Will Gilmore]

I strongly suspect you have at least that part of the story right.

Well, it could have been pirates. After sailing to Jamaica, the previous owner had to fight off pirates who ended up taking his boat and made him walk the plank. The plank was made from the port side seatback. Thinking they were done with him, they tossed the useless seatback overboard and sailed off to Port Royal. They then had their new prize outfitted with cannons to improve their fleet. This meant removing the starboard seatback as well.
Unbeknownst to the hapless pirates, the PO was a retired marine. He floated around in the Caribbean for half a day before bumping into his port side seatback. He grabbed onto it just in-time to defend himself from a hungry 14' bull shark. He smacked the shark across that blunt snout with the seatback them paddled it like a surfer until her drifted to shore on a deserted stretch of beach. Carrying the lifesaving seatback with him, he made his way through the jungle. Again that seatback served him well when he used it as a shield to stop the poison darts flung at him from the headhunter's trip-wired trap. He then used it to bridge a small crevass and escaped the cannibal territory. That's when he saw his hijacked boat tied to a quay surrounded by a pirate camp.
He waited until dark and snuck past a group of drunken pirates singing "A pirates life for me" and bidding on captured booty. He quietly dispatched the pirate watch aboard his boat and made it to the barrier reef just when they spotted him and fired their shore batteries to try and stop him. They would have succeeded too, if he hadn't still had that seatback and had propped it up on the stern rail while navigating the tretcherous reef lined pass to open ocean. That seatback deflected an otherwise deadly shot from a 4 lb ball.

When he managed to land in Key West, he found nearly a dozen bullets lodged in that piece of plywood. He replace the port seatback after repairing it, of course, but there was no cherry plywood to replace the starboard one. He sold the cannons and saved the money by using a standard balsam plywood on the starboard side. Then he sold the boat and moved to the mountains.

- Will (Dragonfly)

 

[Davidasailor26]

Then he sold the boat and moved to the mountains.

Well that's anticlimactic.

 

[Will Gilmore]

Well that's anticlimactic.

sorry

- Will (Dragonfly)

 

[jssailem]

Good shot at it @Will Gilmore

 

[ggrizzard]

You people read any good books lately?

 

[sailnoproblem]

Well, it could have been pirates. After sailing to Jamaica, the previous owner had to fight off pirates who ended up taking his boat and made him walk the plank. The plank was made from the port side seatback. Thinking they were done with him, they tossed the useless seatback overboard and sailed off to Port Royal. They then had their new prize outfitted with cannons to improve their fleet. This meant removing the starboard seatback as well.
Unbeknownst to the hapless pirates, the PO was a retired marine. He floated around in the Caribbean for half a day before bumping into his port side seatback. He grabbed onto it just in-time to defend himself from a hungry 14' bull shark. He smacked the shark across that blunt snout with the seatback them paddled it like a surfer until her drifted to shore on a deserted stretch of beach. Carrying the lifesaving seatback with him, he made his way through the jungle. Again that seatback served him well when he used it as a shield to stop the poison darts flung at him from the headhunter's trip-wired trap. He then used it to bridge a small crevass and escaped the cannibal territory. That's when he saw his hijacked boat tied to a quay surrounded by a pirate camp.
He waited until dark and snuck past a group of drunken pirates singing "A pirates life for me" and bidding on captured booty. He quietly dispatched the pirate watch aboard his boat and made it to the barrier reef just when they spotted him and fired their shore batteries to try and stop him. They would have succeeded too, if he hadn't still had that seatback and had propped it up on the stern rail while navigating the tretcherous reef lined pass to open ocean. That seatback deflected an otherwise deadly shot from a 4 lb ball.

When he managed to land in Key West, he found nearly a dozen bullets lodged in that piece of plywood. He replace the port seatback after repairing it, of course, but there was no cherry plywood to replace the starboard one. He sold the cannons and saved the money by using a standard balsam plywood on the starboard side. Then he sold the boat and moved to the mountains.
- Will (Dragonfly)

Sounds like that could have been Capt. Tony. Except for the fact Tony would never have moved to the mountains.