waconda boats

[macattack5]

I have a 1957 waconda 16ft. looking for any information, or parts like seats

 

[roffey]

I bet you will have a very difficult time finding parts for a 63 year old boat. I would think you'll have to fabricate or fix the ones you have?

 

[Scott Danforth]

much less parts for a low production manufacturer went out of business over 36 years ago.

the seats were probably purchased from a local upholster. as roffey stated, you will need to fabricate or fix what you have.

 

[Scott Danforth]

BTW, Welcome aboard :welcome:

 

[roffey]

I did a little checking around, these boat are hand made. There is virtually no wood in the boat. I bet each boat is likely different as you could order with all sorts of different options, even a hard top. From what I read these boats are collectable.

https://www.fiberglassics.com/forum/member-projects/92702-1959-wacanda.html

 

[GA_Boater]

Welcome aboard.

The only thing I can find is in the Fiberglassics library and it isn't much with no interior pictures. Add a few pictures and we might be able to give you some ideas of what she used to look like.

http://www.fiberglassics.com/library/index.php?title=Wacanda

 

[macattack5]

seats

​any place still sells seats like this

 

[GA_Boater]

Several already said no, no need to start another thread for us to tell you no again.

This can't be your boat or you wouldn't be asking about seats. Are the seats still there and are the seat bases in decent shape? If you have something to start with, an upholstery shop should be able to rebuild them.

 

[Scott Danforth]

as GA stated, doubt that is your boat

what is shown in the picture is a fiberglass seat base, and 4 upholstered chunks of wood.

you will need to rebuild the wood portion, order new foam and sculpt it as needed, and the seat skins will need to have the pull-tabs in the correct location.

the fiberglass seat base was most likely done in a mold along side the boat. if its missing, or cracked, you will need to either build a mold or repair.

 

[roffey]

You could have them reupholstered. With out knowing what condition or if you even still have the seats, i'm guessing rebuilding would be easy as you have the old wood for a template. Once you have the structure rebuilt take it to your local upholstery shop and poof..:humble:.. you have new $eats..

 

[macattack5]

lookin for seats for my waconda like the ones in the picture above. ae they made still or what site might have old seats

 

[jbcurt00]

lookin for seats for my waconda like the ones in the picture above. ae they made still or what site might have old seats

You read the posts in this topic prior to your last reply?

You have 3 choices
1: find an upholstery shop that can also fab fiberglass bases and pay them quite a bit to make them for you

2: do it all yourself

3: combination of the 2:
you do the fiberglass base then pay someone to stitch the seats OR get a custom car shop to fab the bases in fiberglass then stitch the seats yourself