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Carver 356 Custom Rear Deck Sofa with Audio!!!

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Carver 356 Custom Rear Deck Sofa with Audio!!!

Postby Adaptel » February 14th, 2023, 4:20 pm

Hello All! I have searched far & wide trying to find outdoor furniture for the decks of various boats I have owned over the years. I have found that most all store bought furniture is made with straight lines & right angles.....but boat decks have none of these. Two years ago I purchased a 2001 Carver 356 aft cabin and love this boat so so much, but struggled to find outdoor seating furniture that didn't look wonky or was overly wasteful of the outdoor deck space. So why not make my own!?!?!?

This was a very ambitious project for me and my first ever attempt at upholstery work of any kind ... but a am really happy with how it turned out. It gives us a cozy place to sit on the deck, lots of storage space, built-in fusion stereo system with banging subwoofer, USB chargers on the front, built-in drainage plumbing to keep inside dry, hinged storage in backrest for all rear deck canvas windows, and much more. Semi-built-in table to be added next. Let me know what you think. If you want to see more photos of this project, check out the google photo link below.

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Re: Carver 356 Custom Rear Deck Sofa with Audio!!!

Postby Viper » February 14th, 2023, 9:27 pm

Nice job, I made something similar for a 355 some years ago. Really makes good use of the space.
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Re: Carver 356 Custom Rear Deck Sofa with Audio!!!

Postby g36 » February 14th, 2023, 11:43 pm

Looks very nice
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Re: Carver 356 Custom Rear Deck Sofa with Audio!!!

Postby km1125 » February 15th, 2023, 11:14 am

Nice job!

What did you use for the CAD drawings?
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Re: Carver 356 Custom Rear Deck Sofa with Audio!!!

Postby Adaptel » February 15th, 2023, 11:44 am

km1125 wrote:Source of the post
What did you use for the CAD drawings?

To get an accurate 3d model of the deck & railing, I used tracing paper and digitized it using an amazing piece of software called Photomodeler. It allows you to accurately scan large objects using a photo, and output in vector format. The sofa was designed in Trimble Sketchup. Not the best tool for the job, but was the one I had. Lastly, cut templates for the the wooden framework components were created by laying them out with Sketchup on 4'x8' sheets and printed on a Mimaki large format inkjet printer.
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Re: Carver 356 Custom Rear Deck Sofa with Audio!!!

Postby Tireless » February 15th, 2023, 12:32 pm

Looks really nice and practical. You did a nice job.

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Re: Carver 356 Custom Rear Deck Sofa with Audio!!!

Postby mjk1040 » February 18th, 2023, 3:11 pm

Better get a patten for that! LOL
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Re: Carver 356 Custom Rear Deck Sofa with Audio!!!

Postby Drspikes355 » February 23rd, 2023, 10:07 am

Wow what a beautiful and professional job !
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Re: Carver 356 Custom Rear Deck Sofa with Audio!!!

Postby 89Convert » March 30th, 2023, 1:16 pm

I have a 02 356 and would be happy to place an order for one of these! :-) Fantastic job!
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Re: Carver 356 Custom Rear Deck Sofa with Audio!!!

Postby PhotoHog » April 5th, 2023, 2:10 pm

Awesome!

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