Can you use cotton batting in boat upholstery?
Maybe inside I've never though
I havn't either except I'm doing a seat with an inside curve thats eating my lunch.
On some vintage boats cotton was used. I would still use it if it was in a cabin., Dacron is the preferred fill now-a-days. Don't like it but its what everyone seems to use. Dacron will drain better. Be sure to use a plastic sheet over whatever if its outside on deck.
kapok fibre is another fill material that was used quite heavily in marine upholstery at one point. And used as a buoyant fill in life jackets at some point.
"the silky down that invests the seeds of a silk-cotton tree (ka·pok tree), Ceiba pentandra, of the East Indies, Africa, and tropical America: used for stuffing pillows, life jackets, etc., and for acoustical insulation.
Also called Java cotton."
I'd consider dacron, maybe cotton for an interior cushion. Kapok is almost explosive in it's flammability. I'd never put it on a boat - even though it used to be used for life vests. Guess that was before closed cell foam.
June
Yea-pretty much what I'd been thinking. Thanks for the replys.