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Folding helm seat

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jcamill55
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Folding helm seat

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Has anybody put hinges in the helm seat? If so how did you do it and what materials did you use? Or if anybody has a folding seat could please post pics of it thanks,jim
Tim Orr
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Re: Folding helm seat

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Here is a link to four approaches to helm seat modifications.
http://www.members.shaw.ca/alanje/

Tim
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Re: Folding helm seat

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Tim Orr wrote:Here is a link to four approaches to helm seat modifications.
http://www.members.shaw.ca/alanje/

Tim
Interesting site. Clearly a man who enjoys working on his little yacht.

(It's arranged as "pages". There were some seat posts around page 10 or so.)
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Re: Folding helm seat

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Keep going down on the left hand side and below page 43 see the section that says - Seat Modifications By Peter, Marvin, Emil and Clive

there are a number of good pictures of different mods.

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Re: Folding helm seat

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Wow, Clive's Albin sure is outfitted
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Re: Folding helm seat

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Thanks , Jim
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