Some friends and I just headed up to the Muskoka region of Ontario, where an old college friend (Jerod) recently purchased a second-hand motorboat from a retiring Quebecois couple. He'd promised some of us a nice weekend at the lake, on the agreement that we help make this secondhand watercraft seaworthy.
This was, alas, a bit of a challenge. Most of the paint on the hull was rusty, the engine was in serious need of a tune-up, and the pontoon seats were flaky and frayed. It wasn't really the weekend of pleasure we'd been looking to, but it was a fun (or at least interesting) one nevertheless.
It began with a half-dozen stops at local hardware, boating and home remodeling shops, randomly picking up the materials we needed to get the "Rose of Conakry" (as Jerod had dubbed her) shipshape once more. To my surprise, the pontoon boat seats proved to be the toughest to spruce up.
While the majority of the hardware problems could be remedied with either a bit of oil or a reluctantly-purchased replacement part, the pontoon seats were effectively fused into the boat itself, rendering it impossible to replace by disposing of a considerable part of the furnishings.
Our first efforts to patch them together with transparent tape and glue proved unsuccessful - we created the pontoon boat seat similar of Frankenstein's monster. Instead, we ended up just ripping out almost all the fabric, and substituting it using some off-white material we'd chemically treated for water damage.
Regrettably, the "Rose of Conakry" will never possess the fresh-off-the-line charm it must've had years ago, but I almost like it this way, it feels robust, lived in. Around Sunday evening we lastly were able to take the "Rose" out onto the lake, where we enjoyed a few hours of kicking back beers and waiting for the fish.
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