Some friends and I lately headed up to the Muskoka region of Ontario, where an old college mate (Jerod) recently had a second-hand motorboat from a retiring Quebecois couple. He'd promised a few us a nice weekend on the water, on the condition that we help make this secondhand watercraft seaworthy.
This was, regrettably, somewhat a challenge. Most of the paint on the hull was rusting, the engine was in dire need of a tune-up, and the pontoon seats were peeling and frayed. It wasn't really the weekend of enjoyment we'd been looking to, but it was an exciting (or at a minimum interesting) one nevertheless.
It started off with a half-dozen stops at local hardware, boating and home renovation stores, randomly gathering the materials we required to make the "Rose of Conakry" (as Jerod had dubbed her) shipshape again. To my surprise, the pontoon boat seats proved to be the hardest to spruce up.
While most of the hardware problems could be fixed with either some oil or a reluctantly-purchased substitution part, the pontoon seats were effectively fused into the boat itself, making it impossible to replace by removing a significant part of the furnishings.
Our early efforts to patch them together with transparent tape and adhesive yielded unsuccessful - we created the pontoon boat seat equivalent of Frankenstein's monster. Instead, we ended up just ripping out most of the fabric, and replacing it using some off-white material we'd chemically treated for water damage.
Unfortunately, the "Rose of Conakry" will never possess the fresh-off-the-line appeal it must've had before, but I almost prefer it this way, it feels rugged, lived in. Around Sunday afternoon we ultimately were able to take the "Rose" out onto the lake, where we spent a couple of hours of kicking back beers and waiting for the fish.
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