1971 Newport 30 Sailboat
Made one of the cushions for the v-birth today. Ended up being a bit more complex with curve+bevel in one side but turned out OK. Man, the boat doesn’t have much space for this type of work – cushion + roll of material + measuring tools and so for. Spent a lot of time crunched up in tight places.
Marina was without power today but thankfully, I have put in an inverter as part of my propulsion power system upgrade. That made it possible to complete this weekend’s project.
Upholstered the final saloon seat and paused to take in the new look. Love how cosy this. material looks, especially in the warm evening light.
Don’t want to run my usual electric heater off the inverter so got the fireplace going. This is definitely turning into a super cozy happy place!
With all 3 back support cushions done, it was time to get the seats upholstered. These ones are a bit more complicated because ever single one of the 3 has a small notch on one of the corners.
That makes them not really reversible and to save on the cost of material and make them more likely to stay in place I ended up using special nonskid backing. The zipper goes into the backing panel.
Then I make the top part using “simple box cushion”, except of course it has a notch that takes the “simple” part out of the name 🙂
Turned out pretty nice.
