folding seat installation

[mercman]

i have a 2009 14ft princecraft fisherman and i want to install folding seats. does anyone know what is under the plastic bench surfaces. is it solid enough to attach the swivel bases for the seats. i'd like to know before i start drillin.

[Fisherman]

Plastic seats?, I'm pretty sure that's only the covering over the aluminum, I've got the same boat just older. I've got a swivel on each of the 2 front benches and one on the battery box lid, 14 years, still holding. I used the aluminum track system, one track bolted through the front curled edge on one side and used #10 self tapping screws for the other side of the track that sits about 2 inches back from the front edge. The drivers seat is mounted on a removeable swivel bolted through the battery box lid with a piece of 3/4 ply as a stiffener and to move it a bit closer to the tiller.