Well thanks to the great advice given on this board along with talking directly with a few guys here who have done their own carpet, I was successfully able to remove my old weathered carpet and install some 24 oz carpet that I ordered from BassCatBoats online. I order 25 feet of the Storm color and had a good amount left over when I finished. I don't have any of the in between shots, which I wish I took, but I can add some advice already given here. First of all your fingere are gonna be sore from all of the wok your about to do with pulling tugging scraping spraying. IF you have rivots..I feel for you, the stainless screws were much easier to work with. I took my time with the removale of the carpet so that I had a good templete to work with...which made the job soooo much easier. I removeble all of the lids and the hardware and placed the pats in zip lock storage bags, then labled he bags as not to be confused later.
Here are some before shots the carpet is a blue/gray
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I used a med sized glue scaper with about 10 blades and a sharp ridgid putty knife to begin the initial glue scrape and then sprayed the acetone frpom a spray bottle on the glue to loosen it and then scrape agian with the blades to remove ALLL the glue.
I used waterproof glue in conjunction with 3M spray contact cement to adhere the carpet to the deck and lids. The process of using the glue on the tops of the lids and placing a weight(cinder blocks, air compressor, dumb bells) on top..then going back in about an hour or so and spraying the lid edges with contact cement was the ticket...Rellay the hardest thing was removing the dang seats..Triton puts screws wayyyyy up in between the cusshions so you can't find them..Thank you Rodney for the help. .
And the completed project..... Yep, wife said that I didn't need to replace the carpet..but once she saw the finished product she was like WOW..It looks like new again!!!!!!
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Also added some BLUE WATER LED's....to the front..still have to do the back storage, bilge and Livewells..