Thanks, Dan.
I don't like pedestals, bases, or chairs - and you can't really use the gun box for storage if you're sitting on it while hunting. Plus, you want the weight as close to the center of the width of the boat (and blind opening) so it doesn't cant to one side (even though this one is heavy enough
that wouldn't be an issue.
So, I started with the fact that the pods in the interior of the Triton are also bench seats. Or you can add folding seats to them and use this to attach them.......
It's basically a slide rail and a plate.
........and obviously you'll need this, so the seats will swivel......
(........although most seats come with this swivel base).
So, the seats can either clamp on the rails on the front edge of the pods, or go on these brackets I made, that use the same hardware (just reversed mounting)......i.e., the same type plate that mounts on the bottom of the seat, mounts on the face of the gunbox (or enclosed cat-walk/storage box in the Gator Trax) and the slide rail is cut-up and attached to 2 sides of the homemade wooden bracket.
I made the brackets out of 3/4" treated plywood, and you have to rip one edge of the attachment rail with a metal-cutting blade on a circular saw. A piano hinge connecting the horizontal and vertical legs of the wooden seat bracket allows them to fold flat for storage in the bottom of the gun box.
We elected not to mount slide rails on the edge of the drivers box and catwalk in the GTrax because we don't use the folding seats while
'running'......plus, the ends of them tend too catch on stuff you probably don't want ripped.....like waders, boots, bags, or bibs.
The seats can be used in either boat. I made 3 brackets for each boat so I wouldn't have to remember to swap something else over to the other boat when we swap rigs out. When we designed the layout of the GTrax, we left a spot at the end of the catwalk for seats storage, and to get in and out of the boat, or get onto the hunt deck.
If you need a closer look, just let me know. Thanks for your comments and interest, Dan.