Boat upholstery that comes to the dock
North Little Rock Boat Upholstery is a mobile boat upholstery service for seats, pontoon furniture, covers and canvas serving North Little Rock and the whole Little Rock metro. The boat stays on its lift or trailer, the patterns get pulled where it sits and the pricing lives on a public page.
Redoing boat upholstery around North Little Rock costs $200 to $500 for a single seat or bench, $450 to $1,200 for a captain’s chair rebuilt with new foam, $2,500 to $6,000 for a full pontoon furniture set and $2,000 to $6,000 for a complete runabout interior. Mobile service changes the logistics entirely: the patterns get pulled at your dock or driveway, the sewing happens at the bench on marine machines and the finished pieces come back and get fitted where the boat lives, so a pontoon never rides a trailer to fix its seats. Arkansas sun is the reason this trade exists here, since ultraviolet light cracks unprotected vinyl seams within a few summers, and marine-grade vinyl with UV-rated thread is what makes the repair outlast the original. Winter booking runs about 13 percent cheaper on the published table, and photos of the seats produce a firm quote the same day.
See your price range right now
Three questions, priced straight from the published cost guide. This is a real calculator running on this page. It asks for no contact details, sends nothing anywhere and the range updates as you answer. The mobile visit is already included in every number.
The vinyl grade sets the lifespan more than anything. Marine-grade vinyl with UV inhibitors and PTFE thread (a Teflon-type fiber sunlight cannot rot, included at no extra charge) survives Arkansas sun for a decade; automotive vinyl on a boat starts cracking in two summers.
What Arkansas does to boat interiors
Sun does the headline damage. A hundred-plus days of strong ultraviolet every year dries the plasticizers out of vinyl until it chalks, stiffens and splits, always at the seams first because thread and needle holes concentrate the stress. Moored and dock-kept boats take it worst, and the south-facing furniture on any pontoon ages years ahead of the shaded side.
Water does the quiet damage. Foam that drinks rain through a cracked seam or a storage-season leak goes flat, sour and moldy from the inside, and new vinyl stapled over wet foam fails from underneath within a season. That is why every quote we write starts with a squeeze test, simply pressing each cushion to feel for flat or waterlogged foam, rather than a color swatch, and why foam has its own honest lines on the cost guide. Stitching rounds out the list: original polyester thread rots in sunlight years before good vinyl does, which is why a seam can let go on a seat whose material still looks fine, and why everything we sew uses thread rated for a decade of exposure.
Seats, sets and everything canvas
Pontoons lead the book in this metro, because pontoons are what the river and the lakes actually carry. The pontoon seats page covers furniture sets, layback loungers and the piece-by-piece pricing that keeps owners from buying eight seats when four died. The dock-side service page walks through how patterning at the boat actually works, visit by visit.
The fabric side of the trade lives on the covers and canvas page: bimini tops re-skinned on your existing frame, custom covers patterned to the actual boat and the zipper and fastener repairs that keep good canvas serving. Runabout and bass-boat interiors, helm chairs and flooring round out the list, every line of it priced on the public cost guide before anyone visits a dock.
From photos to fitted seats
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Text photos of the seats
Pictures of the wear and the boat type produce a real quote off the published table, usually the same day.
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Patterning at the boat
We come to the dock, slip or driveway, squeeze-test the foam honestly and pull the pieces that need work. Under an hour for most boats.
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Bench work
Patterns become new covers on marine sewing machines: marine-grade vinyl, UV-rated thread and foam replaced where the test said so.
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The fitting visit
Finished pieces come back to the boat and go on where it lives. Staples marine-grade, corners pulled true, hardware back in place.
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Invoice matches the quote
Piece by piece against the public table, with the materials named so you know what went into your boat.
The numbers, before anyone visits
Upholstery quotes in this trade usually require hauling the boat to a shop first. Ours start on a public page. These are the ranges we quote from, and the full cost guide explains what moves each one.
| Job | Typical range |
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| Single seat or bench re-cover | $200 to $500 |
| Captain or helm chair rebuild | $450 to $1,200 |
| Pontoon furniture set re-cover | $2,500 to $6,000 |
| Bimini top re-canvas | $400 to $900 |
Where the van goes
We cover the whole Little Rock metro from our North Little Rock base, river docks to lake shores to backyard trailers. Each area page talks about its own fleet and its own wear, because dock-baked pontoons on Lake Conway and tournament bass rigs out of Cabot fail in completely different ways.
Asked before every job
How much does boat upholstery cost around Little Rock?
A single seat or bench re-cover runs $200 to $500 on our published table, a captain or helm chair rebuild $450 to $1,200, a pontoon furniture set $2,500 to $6,000 and a full interior refresh $2,000 to $6,000. Foam condition and vinyl grade set where you land inside each range, and photos of the seats turn the range into a firm written number, usually the same day.
Do you really come to the boat instead of the boat coming to you?
Yes, that is the whole point. We pattern and pull the tired pieces at your dock, marina slip, storage yard or driveway, sew them on marine machines at the bench and come back to fit the finished work. Hauling a pontoon off the water to fix its seats never made sense, and now it never has to happen.
What materials do you use and why does it matter?
Marine-grade vinyl with UV inhibitors, closed-cell or high-resiliency foam matched to the seat, and PTFE-family thread that sunlight cannot rot. It matters because automotive vinyl and cotton-wrapped thread, the classic shortcut pair, start failing on an Arkansas boat within two summers. The materials are named on every quote so you know what you are buying.
When is the cheapest time to get boat seats redone?
October through February, and the discount is published rather than whispered: off-season work runs about 13 percent under in-season rates because the calendar is open. Your boat misses zero water days and splashes in March with fresh seats while spring callers join a queue.
More on the FAQ page, including repair-versus-recover calls and how color matching really works.
Start with photos of the seats
Tell us where the boat lives and what the vinyl is doing. The quote comes back in writing off the public table, and the boat never has to move.