Captains chair pedestal mount into floor

[ataylor32]

Just bought a 1988 Sea Ray Sorrento 23. Has new wrap around seating with a drivers captain chair. The first time out, the chair tipped over backwards with me in it. Screws (some mis-matching in length) pulled right out of the flooring. Still love the boat, but I gotta fix this quick. What is my best approach? Should I reposition the base pedestal and get some longer heavy duty screws. Will that be enough? Is there a sub flooring system anchor that I should put in place underneath the pedestal to support and strengthen it. You guys that have put in a new drivers side bucket seat, let me know what worked.

 

[searay40dad]

A buddy of mine had the same thing happen on his Silverton sedan bridge. we loaded all the holes with marine-tex and reset with slightly larger screws. Still holding like a rock and its probably been 6-7 years now. I always keep marine-tex aboard...it can fix alot of things on a boat.

 

[Big Island Lifer]

What kind of condition is the floor in? It's a long shot, but do you have access to the underside of the deck below the seat mounting point? I am guessing that your floor is wood and may have some rot in it. A little investigation is warranted before you band aid a problem and ignore possible larger issues.




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[ataylor32]

No access to the deck underneath. The wood looks good. The flooring was redone a few years back but it looks like whoever did it used tiny little screws and just put them in the base. I'm thinking I would like to use bolts from underneath, but I would have to cut some sort of center hole to do that, and I'm not sure what's underneath.