All About Seaweed

Interior Cushions

Summary
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The original cushions had tripled in weight due to the amount of sand embedded in the foam. You could actually shake them and hear the sand inside!

I had also "rearranged" some of the seating and berth areas, so new cushions were in order.

Lisa had been chomping at the bit for weeks to get started on them, so I finally got things cleaned up enough to make some measurements.

The first thing I did was tape patterns down to each of the locations on heavy paper. These were then used to measure and cut the foam to the right size.

Based on an internet "legend", I tried a electric carving knife to cut the foam with. It worked like MAGIC!!

I had glued two different pieces of foam together for the correct thickness, and the knife cut through all five inches of it like butter. You could even "shave" off areas easily.

Even better, it could cut the angles easily (on the sides of the hull, etc.) due to its long straight blade.

Next it was long hard work and lots of pricked fingers to sew up all of the covers for the foam.

Now THAT is a professional-looking job!

Lisa is an amazing individual - coming home from a long day at work and then spend all night sewing boat cushions!

Here is the finished cushioins on the short settee next to the galley.

They look just superb!

Lisa is a magician with that LZ-1!

Here is the one for the long pilot berth and seatback.

These all came out better than either of us expected!

....and here is the vberth set.

I chose to split them certain ways in order to have access to the hatches underneath without having to move a cushion the size of Montana to get to anything.

Lessons Learned

My wife is a lot better at most things than I could ever be.


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