I would make the risers out of expanded PVC board, starboard seems a tad soft for that. Or, depending on how much height you need you could pick up a cutting board / Aka slippery white stuff from Sams and use that. I don’t know how tall you are, I’m 6’1” and wear 34” length pants, and I don’t think I’d like the seat being any taller than it is now.
How about just putting it on the helm mat for a foot rest?
I get it, youd like to use the cooler your GF bought you, she sounds like she could be in the wife zone!
Although not asked for this is my opinion, I have found the oem igloo ice chest works great for my day trips and overnight two day trips on the water in 90-100° days. If I know it’s going to be hot I put some frozen water bottles in the cooler the night before, and I make sure all the stuff that’s going to go into the cooler spent the night in the fridge. When I pack the cooler in the morning I pull out the water bottles I put in the night before, put them back in the freezer then put my pre chilled beverages in the cooler and put some new frozen bottles in and amongst them, most of my beverages are water, but there are a few sodas in there. Then I empty the ice maker bin from the freezer on top, if it’s going to be Africa hot, if it’s not going to be super hot it’s just frozen water bottles. Then a plastic bag with sandwiches and snacks lays across the top. If I want to take it a step further I’ll lay a towel across the top before the bag with sandwiches and snacks. I’ve still had plenty of ice in the cooler and things are still cold after three days in 90-100° temps. The biggest thing is pre cooling the contents.
Ive been using ice chests for, well, 5 decades, (crap, that went fast lol!) well before these new chests came out and I use the same methods now as my folks taught me, except they used newspaper instead of a towel on top. You used to be able to get blocks of ice 25# or 10# at the ice houses around town but I haven’t seen one of those in a very long time, now I just use frozen bottles of water, or 1 or 2 liter bottles with frozen water, minimal water in the chest this way.
I get it, the new high digit performance ice chests work great, I got an otter brand one when I bought my truck in 2020, but I’ve yet to use it. It’ll probably get used when I do an extended trip and I’ll put frozen food in there with dry ice. But it’s big and heavy and the storage area is smallish.
