CENTURION BOAT CARPET HOW TO
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Leave some tabbing around its sides so you can graft on your new floor. I would just redo all the decks if it were mine making them as close to the standard floor as possible.

CENTURION BOAT CARPET HOW TO

You can find our emails on member profile.įYI, you can purchase West Systems fiberglass repair book that has step by step on how to do a repair like this. Send the pictures to most any memember and they will post them for you I'm sure. All the decks were cut up and replaced with Nida, very good material and super easy to work with. I just did a rebuild on a Topaz 24 which had balsa decks. No fuss or mess get the already laid up material. Also, should I treat the screw holes with CPES or something so water wont work its way in there and start rotting? First treating the bottom with either CPES or even epoxy resin and a thin glassing. I was planning on using epoxy resin and glass. There are a few areas where I had to cut the flooring out all the way to the sides of the hull because the wood was simply falling out leaving only the glassing that was layed on top, but I think I could glass the new floor directly to the hull in these areas.Īm I on the right track here? or Would it be best to cut the old flooring out all the way to the side of the hull?Īlso, what is the best way to prep the old glassing to secure it to the new flooring with epoxy. Then use taping and epoxy resin to glass it in. This way I could use that to secure the new flooring to the old. Im not an engineer or a boat builder, but I was thinking of making a lip by screwing a 6' strip of 3/4' marine ply to the underside of the remaining 2-3' edge of old flooring. The other way is to glass it in edge to edge, but this seems to me not as strong structurally. Although this would be strong structurally, I think there must be a better way. Also I would have to reconfigure the whole interior so that it all fits back in flush with the deck. I would also have to add a spacer over the stringers so the new flooring would meet. My plan is to use new 3/4' marine ply, but Im not sure just exactly what is the best way to go about reglassing it all in.Ī freind recomended sheeting right on top of whats left of the old flooring(I left approximately 2-3' of flooring around the edges of the hull) but that raises the whole floor almost an inch (after glassing). Next I opened up the boat as much as possible and let everything completely dry out. The stringers seem to be in good shape and all the glassing is intact. Some of the foam had also become saturated and rotted and I dug this out as well. I used a skill saw and sawzall to cut through the old glassed 3/4' ply leaving approx 3' around the sides of where the old flooring is glassed with tape to the hull. The boat has a closed bow and all the flooring under here seemed intact and solid. So I decided that the entire floor would have to be replaced, up to at least where the bow covers it. It bacame aparent to me that piece fixing and patching was not an option, as I want it done right. I started by removing the whole interior and old carpet to get a better look.

CENTURION BOAT CARPET DRIVER

Upon taking out the old carpet The flooring was noted to be rotted in several places, especially underneath the front driver and passenger seat where it had rotted completely though the old 3/4' ply. I just purchased a 1987 19 ft ski centurion.

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