Hi
NP. If you know the chair you have now - prob either the Pompanette Deluxe2 as GW called it
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or
The earlier Pomp chair
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Both have PDF drawings so you should be able to get the seat width arms up and down and establish what I'll call an "as-is zone of fit". You can then contact Llebroc I worked with someone called Kit - she was very good and knows their products and GW requirements pretty well. I think the narrow Marlin Llebroc chair was a little wider - but not much... Then you can see how much aisle space you are giving up - if any. When you have time, take complete measurements of the area including space on starboard of the starboard chair and port of the port chair. Then you can create another "to-be zone of fit" drawing to see what key measurements looks like (don't forget to rotate the chair zones around as it likely isn't square - you want to ensure you don't give up any movement or come in contact with anything plus the chairs slide so your chair zones are adjustable). I'd start with the current mount holes and then investigate shift the seats closer to the sidewalls to make up any lost aisle space or for/aft for best driving position. I still have the factory mount in my boat. I was thinking of moving the fixed mount back further 2" - because I can without hitting the rigging station lid and gain space at the helm, but now will use the current location. I found if I want to have my back on the seat back; the current mounting position is best. In the crap, I like to be tight to the helm and if I move the mount backward, I get more helm room but a loss of close adjustability. The chair is bigger and even after tightening up the GW mount, the adjustability (a plus) gives the chair a little rocking motion (a negative). I'm also using different heights. When I go to the fixed mount, I'm going have to lock in on one as I have to use a large pipe cutter to set the mount final fixed height. You give up adjustability but gain rigidity. Everything has tradeoffs...
If you go after the narrow Marlin (I did this and plenty of room BTW), there are some benefits I'll share.
- Bigger & beefier chair just feels great.
- Bigger seat and longer seat cushion area.
- When you fold the seat for a leaning post, it is so nice to have 8" versus 4" to rest your back again.
- When you fold the arms up, have the seat configured as the post, slide it to the rear and spin it a bit so the seat edge faces the aisle; the aisle space feels bigger to me (never measured). Great when at anchor with the fam and people are moving all over the boat.
