Tangooscar
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Hi Folks,
Dave here. Glad to have found this forum. I have done a lot of searching and can’t seem to find the exact answer I’m looking for.
I just purchased a late 80’s (I think?) Lund S-14 DLX boat with a 2000 Johnson 25hp 3 cylinder.
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Unfortunately, the boat is showing it’s age and there are a few things I’d like to do to spruce it up.
First on the list is the seats and the floor. I intend to get marine grade plywood, cut it to size and re do all of the seat tops. I’m not hung up on that part.
Where I am hung up is on the floor. It’s rotten and needs to be replaced. I started pulling it up today.
There are four sections of the boat. In front of the first bench there is no carpet. The middle two sections have carpet over wood flooring which is only one sheet of wood, which the middle two walk through benches are screwed down onto. The back section with the battery has no carpet.
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So, if it were just as simple as pulling the old floor up, prepping a sheet of marine plywood and gluing on carpet, I wouldn’t need to make this post. I am struggling to figure out how I’m going to replace the floor plywood/carpet when the two middle seats are sitting on top of the wood. Although taking it out may be easy, I do not know how to get the new wood in, as the seats are riveted into the side of the boat, and happen to be below the water line.
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What is my best course of action? Drill out the rivets and replace with SS hardware? New rivets? Cut the wood in two pieces?
Thanks for any and all thoughts,
Dave
Dave here. Glad to have found this forum. I have done a lot of searching and can’t seem to find the exact answer I’m looking for.
I just purchased a late 80’s (I think?) Lund S-14 DLX boat with a 2000 Johnson 25hp 3 cylinder.
Pics:
Unfortunately, the boat is showing it’s age and there are a few things I’d like to do to spruce it up.
First on the list is the seats and the floor. I intend to get marine grade plywood, cut it to size and re do all of the seat tops. I’m not hung up on that part.
Where I am hung up is on the floor. It’s rotten and needs to be replaced. I started pulling it up today.
There are four sections of the boat. In front of the first bench there is no carpet. The middle two sections have carpet over wood flooring which is only one sheet of wood, which the middle two walk through benches are screwed down onto. The back section with the battery has no carpet.
Pic:
So, if it were just as simple as pulling the old floor up, prepping a sheet of marine plywood and gluing on carpet, I wouldn’t need to make this post. I am struggling to figure out how I’m going to replace the floor plywood/carpet when the two middle seats are sitting on top of the wood. Although taking it out may be easy, I do not know how to get the new wood in, as the seats are riveted into the side of the boat, and happen to be below the water line.
Pics:
What is my best course of action? Drill out the rivets and replace with SS hardware? New rivets? Cut the wood in two pieces?
Thanks for any and all thoughts,
Dave