02 SAN Upholstery Project

[SAN210Pat]

Hey guys just got the skins from a PN member that had them on hand and sold his boat. Greatly appreciated! Going to be changing up my interior a bit now. All seat "bases" will be white"ish" vinyl with grey accent piping. Pulled them out and did a quick test fit on the seats with the old upholstery still on. Really excited about how they will turn out!










And here is the test fit on all the bow cushions and the 3 bench seats.


Tools for project:


Nothing special, you don't need a fancy staple gun. It's just what I use, not essential at all. Everything else is old school slow and steady. You can get all sorts of specialty tools at fabric stores to assist. I have just been too lazy to go get them, and every time I regret it! Biggest thing I want is the upholstery staple remover. Makes life a lot easier and the removal of old skins a lot faster!

I'll post along the way to show how I am doing things so others can learn from my mistakes. I have done quite a bit of upholstery so this should be a breeze seeing that I didn't have to create the skins myself this time!

-Pat


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[beach]

It looks like the 03-06 210 foam may be different than the 02 foam. If you scroll down and look at the foam for the port bow seat bottom on an 03-06 210 in the link below, it looks like the foam is raised up on the inboard side where the insert is on the vinyl. You may want to get some foam to increase your foam's thickness where the vinyl's inserts are. That way you won't have loose sections of vinyl.

http://christinesmarine.com/lost---found.html

[SAN210Pat]

It looks like the 03-06 210 foam may be different than the 02 foam. If you scroll down and look at the foam for the port bow seat bottom on an 03-06 210 in the link below, it looks like the foam is raised up on the inboard side where the insert is on the vinyl. You may want to get some foam to increase your foam's thickness where the vinyl's inserts are. That way you won't have loose sections of vinyl.

http://christinesmarine.com/lost---found.html

Hey!
Your 100% right, skins are for an 03, I'll post some pictures of how the design change can be "bypassed" without having the same cut of foam between an 02 and 03.

-Pat





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[SAN210Pat]

Step 1: remove staples from dress up trim and remove hardware from seat base.



Step 2: remove staples from dress up anti skid mat



Step 3: remove staples from upholstery on base of seat



Step 4: life upholstery from base up to accent point that is stapled according to your models split in the foam




Step 5: clean up your mess, make sure you allow some sun light time for your foam to ensure it is dry. Lysol spray actually works great to get rid of mold and mildew without damaging the foam.




I'll be continuing on the project and elaborate on how you can use the foam from 02 and integrate the 03 design.

General shape is the same so it makes it easy, just have to work around the shaping and tightness of the vinyl to get your clean lines.

-Pat


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[Nautiquehunter]

I work for Cover Girl Upholstery part time. I do quite a bit of tear down and some installing . If you are going the use the old foam steam it before you use it will come back to life. Make sure you use stainless staples or they will rust and cause problems.

[SAN210Pat]

I work for Cover Girl Upholstery part time. I do quite a bit of tear down and some installing . If you are going the use the old foam steam it before you use it will come back to life. Make sure you use stainless staples or they will rust and cause problems.

Thanks for the input on the steam! I need to get my hands on a steam machine. I keep hearing about all of the awesome uses for interior boat cleaning!


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[SAN210Pat]

Step 6: Staple front end of the upholstery to the seat base to allow for proper alignment of future foam cut out. Once rough template is scribed (sharpie) pull back the upholstery and cut foam along line with a razor.





Step 7: Adhere front foam design in proper place and use the upholstery interior skirt to apply tension around the new foam design and staple in place. Make sure you apply equal tension all the way around.



Step 8: Adhere remainder of foam ensuring it is pushed forward tight to close up any gaps and is situated correctly on the seat base.




Step 9: Test fit (again) to establish you game plane to start stapling for smoothest finish and even on all sides.


Step 10: I prefer to start along the rear since I had already done a rough stapling of the front. I like to set 1 staple dead center making sure to very tightly pull the vinyl and allow it to stretch over the edge and place tension on the foam.
From that point I go to the center point of the left and right sides applying a single staple in the middle.
Once done with have all 4 sides stretched and secured, I flip the seat back over to see what order I will go to shape the vinyl to the seat and keeping clean lines as I go.

NOTE: YOU WILL PUT IN STAPLES, ADJUST AS YOU GO AND PULL THEM OUT, TO PUT A STAPLE RIGHT BACK IN. TAKE YOUR TIME, IT IS AN ART NOT A FIGHT.




Step 11: Measure and cut your dress up backing. Staple to secure, don't go staple crazy. Install your seat hardware.


Step 12: Final touches, use your upholstery dress up strip to clean up your seat base. Covering the line between your backing and seat upholstery.



Final Product (needs to be cleaned and exposed to some heat to allow more forming to take place)






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[SAN210Pat]

I won't be doing tutorials like that for all seats, but the same game plan applies to all seats.

I am not a professional at all!

I have experience doing it on my own, trial and error through upholstery projects for cars, boats, etc.

So if you are more experienced please feel free to share your experience. I am doing to this to help others like me who are handy people but are reluctant to take it on because they don't know the steps to take.

I plan to poster my completed seats as I go, if there are any seats that I'll be doing that you want a step by step on let me know ASAP. I will do the same for the seat requested as I go along.

-Pat


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[Nautiquehunter]

Did you use some 1/4 -1/2'' foam to cover the indented area where the original foam was cut? Any imperfection in the foam will be seen on the outside vinyl.

[SAN210Pat]

I'm going to use Dacron to create a good seamless transition. Headed to the store to get more supplies today. Going to get a steamer to clean up the foam, more staples, Dacron, biting the bullet on an upholstery staple remover. Going to save me a big headache.

-Pat


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[SAN210Pat]

Alright, taken a bit of time but I have completed all 3 back seats.



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[SAN210Pat]

Working on repairing a few split stitches until I get the rest of my skins ordered. I just used a blind stitch to fix the in line upholstery seam split.

Looked it up and as always there was a YouTube video for it.

Not 100% but no one except me would notice and will prevent it from getting any worse.





I have also stripped all of the bow seats so I can get to putting on the new skins.

My house looks like a Chinese sweat shop, even have my son working!





-Pat


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[rossrips7]

Pat, those seats look great! Good work.


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[SAN210Pat]

Got the center bow cushion done. Easiest one yet, only took a few minutes once prep work was done.

-Pat


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[SAN210Pat]

Finally done! Wasn't bad, just time consuming. I'll get pictures in the boat if it ever stops raining here on the east coast!





And just a reminder of how they were before.


Obviously pictures do no justice to how old and worn out they were.

I hope that some of this information has been helpful to you guys! If you have questions please ask, I'd be glad to help!

-Pat


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