> if it wasn't for the celebratory spirit here a guy could get intimidated
> by all these cool things being fabricated, my mold looks like a squised
> moth ball with black garbage bags trailing off it.

> here comes another idea, after the seat is molded and removed cut out the
> space between the thighs so that your bilge pump can actually go down to
> the bottom of the boat. D rings can be glassed off the front of the seat
> for misc stuff to be anchored to the bottom of the cockpit. I angled the
> seat up a bit and have lots o room under thighs for things.

I think my pump is too long for that space, but the D-rings sound like a definite must-do idea. I put my bulkhead right at the back of the cockpit so that I can invert the boat and drain _all_ of the water out, so I have less behind-the-butt storage than most.

Here's a photo of the existing foam seat.