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Archie

Member Since 26 Aug 2008
Offline Last Active Jul 03 2011 01:25 PM

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Active Posts 8
Profile Views 7,901
Member Title Novice
Age 69 years old
Birthday April 7, 1955
Gender
Male
Location
Chicago

Previous Fields

Water
Lake Michigan
Year of DOO
2005
Model of DOO
Sportster 4-TEC SCIC
Engine in DOO
Rotax 4-TEC SCIC
Hours on DOO
200
Real Name
Archie Ruhlander
City
So Chicago Hts
State or Province
IL

Website URL http://www.aeromarineservices.com

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2005 Sea Doo Sportster SCIC 4TEC for sale

04 April 2010 - 10:46 AM

2005 Sea Doo Sportster SCIC 4TEC w/ Karavan trailer for sale. New Factory 215 HP engine installed. New upholstery with matching grey Hydro Turf flooring. Dual batteries with charging system and Shore Power connection. Raymarine VHF and depth systems. Clarion Stereo System with new speakers. Full travel/mooring cover. Specs say this boat should do about 60MPH - I've had it to 55MPH!!

Finally pulled the seats!!

23 December 2009 - 09:59 PM

I finally got tired of looking at the seams and fabric on the seats in my 2005 Sportster 4TEC SCIC just rot away for NO apparent reason other than normal use. I pulled the seats out - all four so I can make them all match - and I'm going to recover them using better materials and hopefully use as close to the original pattern as possible. What I've found after disassembly of the first seat is that I'm going to modify the seams just a little bit on the (4) backs of the seats and modify only two of the seams on the (4) bottoms. The cushion material is in great shape and I'm going to reuse it as it is.

I can see that the reason for the seams pulled apart on my seats is because there is too much of an airgap between the cushion fabric and the cushion itself. Every time you sit in the seat you are just pulling too much on those seams. I am going to:

use a better grade of marine vinyl - pretty close to original colors - NO silver though. It's not a good color for fabric that is going to be in the sun. Went with dark grey; very light grey and yellow
use a better grade of plastic barrier between the fabric and the cushion material for moisture proofing
use fabric glue to secure the fabric to the cushion itself to eliminate the air gap
eliminate the "screen" pieces on the upper and lower cushions for a little better design and easier to cover and fill the gaps with foam filler pieces
put additional drain holes in the base of the seats for better drainage
put drain holes in the hull area where the seats mount to eliminate the standing water below the seats

I will post pictures of the process as I go along. We do repairs on upholstery and do canvas work in our shop and hope to offer the recovering of these type of seats as one of our services.

Wish me luck

Archie