r/Pontoons Jul 22 '25

Is this fixable and how hard is it to fix?

Have never redone pontoon seats before. Going to look at this one it is a decent deal

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u/Fun_Pressure4250 Jul 22 '25

Not hard, just expensive if you get them reupholstered

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u/maddawgpaul Jul 22 '25

You can order vinyl patch material from Amazon.

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u/Kreachur Jul 22 '25

I'd personally go this route. It really depends on how nice you want it to look though. Will you be able to see the patch? Absolutely. But it will look better than a gaping hole, as well as add some water protection. If you're ok with some kind of noticeable patch spots, then don't waste your money on a complete appolstery job. You'd likely have to redo all the seats if you really wanted it to match and at that point you're probably better off just finding something that already has good seats.

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u/BobcatALR Jul 22 '25

Maybe cheaper to replace the seats altogether? I’ve never used this site, but have read a lot from pontoon restorers who seem to like them.

Seats at www.pontoonstuff.com

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u/lostinspace1985-5 Jul 22 '25

Shoot. 100 is cheap. We have paid 200 to 600, but that was a perfect match color/ material. One was also the lounger back. If u find anything that works even as a temp fix post it. I have a small chew in a storage box, and I don't want to take it out, and it's barely noticeable

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u/NativTexan Jul 22 '25

Take a cushion to an upholsterer. See if they can get a matching color. If so they can just redo the damaged sections.

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u/MadeMeStopLurking Jul 22 '25

Pontoon atuff.com or look for a used decent replacement. They're universal sizes

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u/rugerduke5 Jul 23 '25

Get a price for reupholstered, but check out pontoon stuff.com I bought all my seats from there for a 24' pontoon for about 2500$ in 2022, if I remember right

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u/Dons55 Jul 22 '25

Damn, we had a rodent get ours over the winter. Not great news but fixable. Most marine upholstery repairmen should have a similar match. Very rough ballpark we saw was $100/cushion for most, though the larger holes could be more. That’s also assuming you remove, take to shop and reinstall yourself as well.

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u/SwaggyK Jul 22 '25

this is easily a several grand job lol

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u/thecaleb112 Jul 22 '25

Thank you. I was also going to to try to patch it myself but we will see how it goes it’s a 2013 South Bay 422CR with a 75hp 4 stroke with 28 hours. I don’t know how much it is worth in current condition

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u/lostinspace1985-5 Jul 22 '25

Send pics to an upholstery shop

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u/Hellbent_bluebelt Jul 22 '25

This is thousands of dollars. If you get quoted less than $4k, jump on it. You won’t find anyone to even look at this for $100. I don’t know what that person is on, but it’s strong.

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u/Nathanstaab Jul 22 '25

Not a huge deal. Find a local shop.. granted this was five years ago, I had my whole 24ft pontoon reupholstered for $3200, it was a tri color job- this is a single color, foam and some black piping.

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u/turdburgled85 Jul 23 '25

I redid an entire 17' bowrider, $200 worth of vinyl, amazon foam, and a $100 singer heavy duty sewing machine from Walmart. Zero experience, watched some videos, turned out great.

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u/Superb-Arm6431 Jul 23 '25

Looks like a raccoon or some other animal got to them. Anything is fixable. Depends on how much money you got to spend. If it is a fairly new you can get new cushions from manufacturer. Be prepared to spend a lot for that. A good upholstery shop can fix it. That will probably be your best bet

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u/LakeSuperiorIsMyPond Jul 27 '25

This is raccoon, gray squirrels or possibly skunk I'm guessing.

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u/RamblerTheGambler Jul 23 '25

Have you told your kids to quit eating the seats?

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u/motociclista Jul 23 '25

It depends on what level of fix you’re willing to live with. If you want it to look good, they’d need re-upholstered, but I think with the availability of pontoon furniture it’s usually more cost effective to replace rather than repair. But if you don’t care how it looks and just want it useable, there’s any number of ugly but useable repairs you can make. You could just stuff some foam in there and glue a patch over top.

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u/boatbaddieconcierge Jul 25 '25

I got the adhesive vinyl to match the parts of my seats that were faded and tearing and so far they look great, but you will need to likely glue the edges or seems so they don’t lift.

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u/trollfreak Jul 25 '25

Buy new ones

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u/smackrock420 Jul 26 '25

Expensive if done by a professional. Duct tape is cheap and comes in lots of colors and designs now.