Bye bye carpet, hello upgrades!

[aerolland]

This weekend saw the culmination of reassembly for our boat from carpet removal to speaker upgrades, LED lighting, and new sundeck vinyl. Dingy brown carpet and sun damaged vinyl took way to new EVA foam and fresh vinyl (minus the brown). Lot's of hard work in the baking sun but worth every second now that the floor is clean and dry and your feet don't cook!

Here's the original we were working with. Sun damaged and tired of people walking on it:

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The old hatch material (engine and gull doors) was shot. Aluminum de-laminated from the honey comb core and panels severely bent:

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[aerolland]

Helper pup got confused when I said "let's go work on the boat". I think he heard "let's go boat"

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[aerolland]

Some of the details of the walk-through engine cover:

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[aerolland]

Brand new vinyl sunning itself to get pliable, again he had the right idea...

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New speakers and carpet for the speaker cards:

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[aerolland]

The after pics:

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[bergermaister]

Man that's a lot of work but looks amazing!

[sandm]

very nice job.....
making an older boat just like new again and satisfaction of doing it yourself is quite rewarding.

[liteweightstickers]

Looks great. Did you use 3/8"or 1/2" HDPE. Are you happy with the EVA? The walkthrough is a great idea!

[aerolland]

Looks great. Did you use 3/8"or 1/2" HDPE. Are you happy with the EVA? The walkthrough is a great idea!100% of the HDPE I used is 3/4", mostly for the structure support for the rear locker hatches. Used same for walkthrough because I had it on hand. The engine hatch could land a 747 with the eventual I-beam like construction it turned into. You would be surprised how cut up the main section is for the engine hatch to help clear the spark suppressor and the latch mechanism. Hard to get continuous support front to back, felt like overkill wasn't that overkill.

EVA is great so far. MUCH cooler than the carpet and bare fiberglass floor. Great thing is it sheds water quickly. It's softer than the carpet for sure too. The dog did panic trying to get out of the water and ended up scratching the surf deck pad slightly this weekend but already had a couple fin gouges in it anyway. Will replace at the end of the season probably, it's been on the surf deck for a year now. No fading, only complaint is it shrank around the perimeter about 1/8".

I see lots of people complain about it not sticking well enough so they use alternative spray glue. I have not experienced anything like that on mine. Clean surfaces well and it sticks like crazy!

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[aerolland]

Man that's a lot of work but looks amazing!


very nice job.....
making an older boat just like new again and satisfaction of doing it yourself is quite rewarding.

Thanks guys! It was a bunch of work but I enjoy doing it. Besides, I'd rather show up with something old that turns heads than pony up for new and shiny ($$$), just my opinion.

I've read most all of both of your guys posts with everything y'all have done on your machines to get a bunch of ideas and inspiration, always impressive! Speaking of that, y'all have been suspiciously quiet with upgrades/mods lately............. [emoji1787]

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[bergermaister]

Time and money... Some of my grandiose ideas were a bit too grandiose. Apparently doing surgery with a sawzall and increasing the height of the hull is too much work and adding a turbo kit would melt the sidewalls of the rear compartments due to clearance issues...

Just waiting to get my bimini back from the shop still - they are swamped now after being closed for a while. And waiting for some dry/warm weather to do some trailer painting.

What else is on your list? You know you've already started another one....

[996scott]

awesome job, looks great. Did you sew the vinyl or have a shop do it?

[aerolland]

awesome job, looks great. Did you sew the vinyl or have a shop do it?

I took everything apart and delivered just the tired skins to a local guy, let him color match, purchase, apply backing foam, and sew together. I then put them back together. I saved ~$2k according to him by doing it this way. I was happy, he was happy (busy time of year for him, simple sew job this way).

I looked into getting a machine that could do it but I would have had more in the machine and material than I paid him so... :confused:

[aerolland]

Time and money... Some of my grandiose ideas were a bit too grandiose. Apparently doing surgery with a sawzall and increasing the height of the hull is too much work and adding a turbo kit would melt the sidewalls of the rear compartments due to clearance issues...

Just waiting to get my bimini back from the shop still - they are swamped now after being closed for a while. And waiting for some dry/warm weather to do some trailer painting.

What else is on your list? You know you've already started another one....

I still had the front 2 speakers to re-carpet behind (this is done as of last night), new sub is being delivered sometime this weekend but this should be simply plug and play. Only other thing I really planned to do was add RGB's to my Rev 10's, but I plan to DIY that too - WS price on that kit leaves me :confused: for what it consists of.

I would love to paint my trailer black to match the boat and get rid of the galvanized look, maybe once my building is done so I can lift the boat off the trailer properly. That's my next 'boat project', finishing my 30' x 40' garage that I am building myself. Pouring concrete and studding out walls in the next few weeks.

I need that building done by winter so I can A) safely store my boat element free and B) be able to have a high bay to pull the engine to replace the oil pan that the previous owner's shop ruined (I didn't know about it until 2 weeks ago)

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This 3" bolt should have only been allowed to be about 2"!!! I cut it down, black RTV'd the offending damage (hope it holds rest of season) then I'll pull the motor to replace properly.
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[mcdye]

Looks great!

[Tylerrnemt]

That is exactly what I had planned out in my head for a walk through when I still had my LSV..... Very well thought out and excellent execution!!