So, I get my landsailer bits from my uncles hay shed, where it has been sitting dormant for 10 years.

Wheels, check. Chassis, check. Mast, check. Steering, check. Seat. . . . hmmm. No seat.

I wasn't really that fond of it anyway, given it was an old plastic school chair screwed to a piece of aluminium.

So I was thinking I might investigate the options of making one. Now given it will be a one off I was looking at fibreglassing techniques for one off projects and came up with foam sandwich.

Has anyone had any experience with using this technique and or fibre glass woven cloth? It looks to be relatively straight forward, but I'm not sure of what the finish would be like.

Adam.

Hey Nikrum,

Yeah, I didn't like the idea of going to all the effort of making a mold when I knew I'd only be making one seat.

Cool, Given my inexperience with fibreglass, I kinda just wanted to sanity check the technique for what I wanted to do. So basically what I was thinking is make a skeleton frame with mdf to the desired shape, then lay and tack the foam, a couple of layers of glass, then once that's cured remove from the frame and glass the inside. Resin and Sand, Resin and Sand to the desired finish.

Do I have that right?

Yeah, cool.

Tomorrow, I'll try and get the landy together for some pics as well.

Cheers,

Adam.

Now that is the way to go mrsquish. A really nice seat but for simplicity of build you couldn't get much simpler than this.



It could be laid back a little further though as the Head is a little high when sailing.
For a first build though, Seat and back rest 2 Layers diagonal cut 3 ply Glassed between and over layers and the Sides are single layer 3 Ply Glassed both sides and into place with a little curvature allowing easy entry.
Ron

Wow guys,

Thanks for the pics.

I'm still leaning towards the foam sandwich, although that might change when I find out how much it costs. One thing I was thinking of is making the seat in cross sections of foam stuck together to form the entire shape, sand to desired finish, then glass. Could use vaccume bag.

Here's a pic I took today, of my landy in the driveway, Minus seat obviously. I'm still working on getting some rigging sorted and I'd like to rework the steering mechanism but it all works.

I'll second the 6mm ply and fibreglass seat. You can make them pretty fast and in the shape you want.

Build it rough, glass it up and then attack it with an angle grinder with flappy paddle sanding disk to make it pretty.

Thanks Guys, especially for the pics.

I think you've convinced me to go the ply option, I'm quite handy with an angle grinder with a flappy disk and it will be a good introduction to fibreglass rather than jumping in the deep end.

Squishy.