Direct Drive Rear Seat for Fat Sac

SnivesAtGT · Newbie Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 26

First off I wanted to say that this is a great site - I just started going to it and this is actually my first post - everyone is very informative on this site.

I have a Prostar 190 and wanted to make a seat for the rear to hold a fat sac under it. I've seen one person who made a sundeck - but I need the seating capability also.

So I designed a seat that went a little further out than the stock seat - to create more room for the sac - but was still low enough to make into a seat. It's still a work in progress - a LOT OF WORK - but it comfortably fits a 500 pounder back there and I can still fit passengers there.

Any comments/criticisms/suggestion highly encouraged. I plan to post my plans that I drew out in addition to the how-to and pictures that will follow.

Also - has anyone else done this before and pics/links would be great.

Frame:

More Progress w/ the empty sac under it:

W/ the sac full:

Thanks,
Ben
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Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

Looks good.

I have been considering doing the same thing for a while now. Does that ramp really help that much when it comes to space? Generally with fatsacs being round it doesn't seem like it would provide too much extra space.

SnivesAtGT · Newbie Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 26

I would say normally it wouldn't buy you much.

But I orderred a custom fatsac to be made from the Get High company in Miami. It's rectangle and should fit in the space very snug.

I'll update some pics w/ the new sac when it comes in.

Thanks for the comments - keep them coming...

Dip_Krew · Posted: Mar 27, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject:

dont forget to seal the wood with something like varathane!

SnivesAtGT · Newbie Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 26

Dip_Krew,
Is this required w/ pressure treated wood? I'm blad you told me becuase I started doing some of the carpetting, but I'm at a point when I can take it off. I use all pressure treated - even the plywood is.

Thanks,
Ben

Dip_Krew · Posted: Mar 27, 2006 5:04 pm Post subject:

oh ok pressure treated should be ok then!
usually pressure treated wood is green,

i didnt know they made pressure treated sheets of ply wood, how much was 1?

SnivesAtGT · Newbie Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 26

It was bad - 25 a 4x8 sheet at home depot. The flash really makes the wood look less treated (green) - but it all is. The 2x2 and 2x3s were really cheap though - less than 3 bucks a pop.

Here is a pic of the normal plywood and the nice pressure treated they have there.

Edit: Obviously one is particle board and one is not - but tried to show the color difference also...

SnivesAtGT · Newbie Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 26

Doesn't seem like there is that much interest in this project - I suppose most people on this site are the V-Drive Priviledged...Someday I will afford one.

here are some more shots w/ the finished armrests now...

matt1808 · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 1981

Looks good

does black carpet get hot though? I'm guessing it probably doesn't, but I have never been in a boat with it.

SnivesAtGT · Newbie Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 26

bremsen · Outlaw Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 168 City: Charlotte

I did some searching online for some marine vinyl.....since we're probably going to try and reupholster ours sometime this summer. Cheapest place I found was www.atrim.com. You shold also use UV treated thread if you plan on getting the covers sewn.

SnivesAtGT · Newbie Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 26

CP3 · Outlaw Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 219 City: SC

You could just get the fly high fat sac seat. Its kind of like a couch but weighs like 1000+ pounds.

SnivesAtGT · Newbie Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 26

typeRider · Criminal Joined: 02 Jun 2003 Posts: 99 City: austin

thats a nice setup man. good pics as well. i'm also in the direct drive crew with a tige 22i type r. i've been highly considering have a ballast installed underneath it the only problem we've got is that not one single damn person not even on the tige' owner's site can find a setup for our specifitc boats that works just right. i've got it pretty dialed in but need a few more pounds i'm at 1620 right now but its a huge boat. so are you going to do a fill system on the exteior of the boat hull or hinge the seats in the middle or on the front so you can flip it open to fill the sacs cuz either way is pretty tight. oh about those seats.. honestly rather than trying to make them drive to the local ghetto find a place that'll upholster and has a lowrider sittin out front they'll do it cheap and it'll be nice. just don't take ur eyes off the boat for more than a few seconds or it'll get jacked and be headed south of the border hahha. j/k good work though.

SnivesAtGT · Newbie Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 26

typeRider,
The Tige boats are really nice. I was actually looking at the Switch V as my next purchase - if I can ever afford a new boat Smile

The sack actually fills up using a Jabsco pump that is mounted to a thru-hull connection. There are two sacs in the boat (one hidden under the bow and one in back under the seat - both filled and emptied using the DPDT switches up front.

I know this type of setup will fill/empty a little slower than aerator pumps - I just love the simplicity of have a single pump and so forth...

joshlon9 · Newbie Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 3

On those custom sacs that you had made by Get High...how much weigh did you get from each.

WannabeSS · Posted: May 05, 2006 6:46 am Post subject:

The J.Jones · Posted: May 08, 2006 7:58 am Post subject:

I love the project man....great work.

I'd got a Malibu Response that I'm currently weighting down and love the idea. What are you going to use for a backseat now? Do you think there would be any way you could build a platform like that and then allow the orig. seat to be attached to the top of the platform?

J.Jones

SnivesAtGT · Newbie Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 26

Well I thouhgt about making it so that I could use the old cushion, but the cushion ended up being too big - it took away from the back support.

If you made the right ratio, I'm sure you can probably make it so you could though.

Thanks for the compliment - It really ended up working out great. I put a custom sack in there that fits perfect and fills the entire space.

Ben.