2021 190 MONTAUK Aesthetics of Cleats for Sun Lounge

[bmat5]

I may purchase a sun lounge for my 2021 190 Montauk. My dealer has provided me with a parts list and installation diagrams. There are five cleats that need to be installed to secure the base [of the sun lounge].

Q1: what is the effect of installation of five cleats for the sun lounge option of the aesthetics of a 2021 190 MONTAUK?

Q2: where can photographs of the five cleats for the sun lounge option be found?

[bmat5]

Figure 1 is an an image provided by a local dealer taken from the installation instructions of the Sun Lounge option. The cleats are shown in gold with the platform sitting on top. It's somewhat helpful in understanding what the cleats would look like.

Fig. 1. Low resolution image of an illustration showing details of the installation of a Sun Lounge option.

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[Repeats]Q2: Where can a photograph of the five cleats [as installed] be found?

[jimh]

A local dealer provided the attached image from the installation instructions of the Sun Lounge option...

The resolution of the drawing is very poor and difficult to see. It looks like someone used a digital camera to take a picture of a digital display screen of a digital image file, leading to all sorts of artifacts in the image. Also the white levels in the image are very low.

Perhaps, if you have the digital file that was used to created the image on the digital display screen you could use that instead of a compressed digital photographic image of that digital image being displayed on a digital screen. When any digital reproduction is subjected to a second or third digital encoding, there is a risk of creation of artifacts (often called a moiré pattern) in the resulting image. That is what has occurred here in Figure 1.

Also, I believe that the term "cleat" as used here means some sort of object that holds another object in place, and not the more common use of that term in boating to mean a mooring cleat that provides a way to fix a line to a boat. So the "cleats" are probably just appropriately shaped pieces of a plastic material that hold in place the seat back of the sun lounge.

Getting back to the original inquiry to assess the aesthetics of the boat being affected by the “cleats”, I would expect that Boston Whaler would use the same color for the cleats or a very close match, and on that basis I would not anticipate that the aesthetics of the boat would be severely affected by being able to have the five cleats in your line of vision. Unless you were aboard the bost and standing in the open bow and looking downward towards the deck, I wouldn’t think the cleats would even be noticeable. Someone not aboard the boat and looking at the boat would properly not be able to even see them.

Further, I really doubt that installing the Sun Lounge option will cause observers of your boat to remark about how the aesthetics have been degraded by the installation of the five cleats.

Ultimately the decision—whether or not to buy and install and enjoy the Sun Lounge and to suffer the aesthetic degradation when the Sun Lounge cushions are not in place and can possibly be seen—is up to you to make.

[bmat5]

Yes, had a heck of time uploading that image due to original file size, 6 MB. Took screen shots until file size reduced enough to upload. Even the original resolution wasn't great. However, I have installation instructions for reference if needed by members. The cleats were ordered today and should be in sometime next week.