[phillycincykid]

cleanliness......next to godliness. your lucky though.... all my panels had to come out and get totally recovered. i bought the marine vinyl , wood and other misc. material and it still cost me $400.00 doing it myself. there wont be a next time. And those magic erasers are awesome. They are a staple on my boat now. even though my wife thinks im nuts for doing so...she isnt the one cleaning it.

[180diablo]

Yeppers. So far I have cleaned almost every part of the boat so far. But I also haven't let her drive it yet.. HAH!

I did have some odd discolouration when I looked at the bow panels. It may have had something to do with the Sunlight dish soap scrubbing I had to do the bow cover to remove the mould. Unless that is the 303 Protectant getting into the vinyl fibers. I'll find out Saturday afternoon to see what changed.

Currently I have a camping tarp draped over the boat to keep the water out..

Originally Posted by phillycincykid

cleanliness......next to godliness. your lucky though.... all my panels had to come out and get totally recovered. i bought the marine vinyl , wood and other misc. material and it still cost me $400.00 doing it myself. there wont be a next time. And those magic erasers are awesome. They are a staple on my boat now. even though my wife thinks im nuts for doing so...she isnt the one cleaning it.

[Motoxxx43]

Laundry detergent has worked well for me when it comes to cleaning vinyl and stains. I recently found out mustard stains vinyl...

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[180diablo]

Alright, time to update this thread with some more photos...

Stinky carpet .. out you come!






It was a majority out anyways .. (looking towards bow)





Found this slimy foam gas tank cushion tucked in the hole I actually thought it may have been a piece of cloth or dryer sheet. I just kept pulling and out it came without too much hesitation.



I know I asked another member to post up a " How-To " for removing the carpet, honestly there isn't too much to it. A couple of staples and some old glue and out it comes. Bring a screwdriver to pop the staples. Pretty straight forward really. Just make sure you bring a stiff broom to sweep up the dried up glue bits in the ski locker. Then pour some water down into the ski locker to flush the drain hole out. I had to snake the drain from the bilge side with a small piece of wire to get the gunk to move. Not much of a smell now!

My next plan is to look into the spray in bed-liner stuff and spray down the ski locker as much as I can. Just to make it look pretty again.

Starboard kick panel, getting some sun.


Had to go back and get rid of the crap under the fire extinguisher mount ..



Next ... I have to remount the "Mariah Premium Sound System" plates back onto the dashboard (forgot to bring up my needle nose pliers).

[180diablo]

Soooooooo,

I found out that remounting the "Mariah" and "Mariah Premium Sound System" aluminum plates is really a 2 person job (without removing the whole dash). Thanks to my mom for being around and helping on the upper side of re-mounting it.. LOL.

This past weekend I started playing around with the stereo wiring in my boat. I have 7+ year old electrical tape that is now very gooey. It was a mess and needed to come off to be redone. I haven't decided if I wanted to go with a simple rewire and heat shrink OR connect up the wiring into a spade terminal (with plastic covering) and use it that way.

Any thoughts on which method to use for rewiring ?


Here is a pic of the speakers I will put in place of the stock ones (seen on left). I bought these several years ago and never ended up swapping them into the boat. I thought about maybe using them for rear speakers, but "marine" speakers would be better for rears as they would see more spray than under the dash.





Yes, I still have the 20 year old Craig tape deck in the boat, I'am currently taking a look at what is available to swap out the tape deck (making a new cut-out hole would have to be done as well). I have no plans to install an amp into the boat. Just something w/ some a bit more power.