IMHO:
You have to decide what you gonna stick in it and that would tell you how big
it should be... Or whether you need two compartments...
The ones I've seen that work really good are open to cockpit floor and not a
hole on top of seat... They are completely sealed/fiberglassed from the cabin
and accesible only from the cockpit. Water that gets in drips back out to
cockpit floor and down the drain... Guess you could place a screw on plate
access port from the inside facing fwd high off the floor of compartment.
I guess you box it in from cabin area close to stern. I imagine you make a
wood box, cover box with glass, you lift if off from berth with a jack
pressing it up against cockpit seat and side, glass it in with woven roving so
it's completely sealed, cut a hole on side of cockpit seat close to floor, use
this cut for a door, put hinge on door , glass the inside of box to boat, use
it as storage box. I imagine you should make it so it occupies the stern part
of the space so you can still use the berth...
Anyone having one like this, could you send pics?
Best
SF
In a message dated 98-10-30 12:31:45 EST, you write:
<< Subj: Re: Cockpit seat storage compartment
Date: 98-10-30 12:31:45 EST
From: phrrld@ttuhsc.edu (Richard Dickerson)
To: SolarFry@aol.com
I am interested in doing the same. If you get a reply to your posting,
would you be kind enough to forward it to me? Thanks.
Richard Dickerson, Ph.D., Diplomate, ABT
Associate Professor
The Institute of Environmental and Human Health
Texas Tech U/TTU Health Sciences Center 5C200
http://www.ttu.edu/tiehh
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>From: SolarFry@aol.com
>To: JBlumhorst@aol.com
>Subject: Cockpit seat storage compartment
>Date: Thu, Oct 29, 1998, 3:40 PM
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>In a message dated 98-10-28 21:57:12 EST, you write:
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><< I'm thinking about installing a storage compartment in the cockpit
seats.
> Can anyone send me a picture (.gif, .jpg or .tif format or whatever) of
what
> it looks like or describe where and how big it is?
>
> Judith Blumhorst
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>What size do you have in mind?
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>what do you plan to store there?
>
>Do you want it to drain outboard? it will leak!
>
>Best
>SF
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