Volga Hydrofoils Messageboard

Hi everybody,

I am just working on the renewal of the interior designing on AutoCad. How could it look like and how could it be improved.
We all have a space problem on our Volgas and who-ever designed them did not particularly think about esthetics nor about
multi-functionality or convertibility. Here is the Turkish Suggestion for somekind of boat, that can be converted from a 4-seater
with big hatch into a 6 seater with 1/2 Hatch.
Don't miss the sexy streamlined chairs! The seats are detachable and the box console can contain for whatever small belongings.
Their back is having an inclined step board to rest the feet of the 2nd row passengers. The detachable seats can be inserted
in the other way round, which may enable the passengers to sit face-to-face. That''s simply what we call a ''Turkish Delight''!

hi,

Some more sights of an amateur on AutoCad ... with a promise that more will be coming ...

best regards,

Back of the pool soon be coming!

The console for the seats

Here comes the unfinished dashboard.

Instrumenting the dashboard:

Wow.... that dash looks damn good! How is it coming along now? More pics, please!

When looking at the dashboard, you may see that gauges had deviations of up to 5 mm on the right. What other people may not see disturbs the owner or creator of it. So I had to rectify it, by cutting both portside gauge pipes out and reglue them in again. Wooden sticks and other pieces had to keep the glued gauge-pipes placed properly in line until the glue dries and stiffens. We also had now chance after installing the steering wheel to determine the place of the seventh gauge. The earlier try to place the seventh gauge next to the portside gauges was disturbing the symetry, we therefor decided to obey the rule to give it the same distance to the steering wheel on the left side. The side panels of the dashboard are not finished yet and we still have to shape them. Parts of the steering wheel installed it will make you guess what it shall look like.
To be honest, the idea was infact anyway stolen from a dutch boat ''Sylvestris'' however with some own technology and refinements made by my own. The original can be seen here: Sylvestris boat has very nice features and one of them is that it is having seats infor of hatches, that close the complete boat. A real gadget, you can also see in their internet site. (However, not seing any kind of rubber seals or gaskets I doubt that it is rain-proof.)

Another dashboard that was cool to copy is here shown: The stunning view of an - I m p a l a - ! This was the time when the US declared they will explore the space and the galaxy in the sixties. I think after the Sputnik shock, they prefered to build space-age-like automobiles first ... and the outbreeds of this industry was indeed brilliant! So why not bastardize Sylvestris dashboard with the Impala one? The jet-like gauges give a nice touch reminding of the jets on the head of Uncle Rastislav's Caspian See Monster.

Mission:

1. tight connection
2. quick assembly
3. non-disturbing estethics
4. easy use, simple design
5. preventing noise and vibration
6. snap-on design
The material for the screwing connections is stainless steel. The intermediate element is of ''Derlin'', a semi elastic buffering (light blue) element, preventing noise and vibrations...

The anchorage is glued into the plywood and secure screws are inserted to make sure nothing moves.

Four of those connections make sure that nothing moves and everything is tightly attached.

Here we go...

The seats were always an obstacle to me. Although the russian originals have not been too uncomfortable, I wanted from the beginning something else. I had to combine comfort, design and light. The Russian Volga builders failed with the second two. However before blaiming them now I need to confess, that my desire for design must have already added atleast 100-200 kilos on the boat and when taking under consideration this extra weight and its impact on performance, I hope not prove the russian lightweighting as correct approach. Whatever - you only have one ass and you want your ass to be comfortable. Don't you?

I found in a shop something to suit my own design. It's a ready chair and only needs some facelifting to become the shape of what I wanted.
Once sitting in it I new it was designed for my narrow ass and probably will disqualify some hypos I call relatives or friends. Rather having a heavy chair than a heavy guest?
We will add length and height. Also the covering cloth / leather will be exchanged.
But it has a very fine advantage you sit really comfortable even though the chair is not high. We measured 45 cm. But why take a small chair? Our Volgas themselves are not high. Adding a high chair will make the boat look small and disturb the design.

Here are the changes on the cockpit side with fitting the tubes on them: