96’ Champion Deck Resto

[Rhino2810]

My carpet surpassed its life expectancy and it was time to re-deck. I opted to go with this EVA foam from Amazon. I feel tested it first for six months on the back deck and it held up well with no issues (including an Arizona summer). So I went for it on the front deck. Lots of elbow grease required to get the aluminum lids cleaned up. Painted everything with marine grade white paint. Then made my cuts in the foam using a mat cutter which enabled the other dyes to be cut at 45 degrees. Turned out great and real happy with it.

[Team Mud]

Looks nice, good job!!!!

I found that a palm sander cleaned up the aluminum lids easily

[wgammill]

Looks great. I'm glad to hear that it held up well in the Arizona heat, as I just put the same thing in my boat yesterday. I didn't have to clean as I replaced the floor in my boat also so it had clean resin coated marine plywood to adhere to .I used Weldwood Contact cement at the corners, joints& down the seams and it appears to have worked well. Yours looks better as I was a little off butting up some joints with the grooves in the material. I also found the sheets were not 100% square.

[Rhino2810]

Good info, thanks guys.

[willwork4fish]

That looks great, beautiful job. I'm going to probably be replacing my carpet in the next couple of years on my P4, I've done a couple of carpets...do you think this was easier or harder than putting in new carpet? or the same?

[Rhino2810]

I would say harder only because it was a lot of work getting the aluminum lids and deck all cleaned up. I took off every speck of glue so I could paint it and/or stick the foam to it. For carpet you would not need to get it as cleaned off as you would need to for the foam. It was as worth the work though.

[rojoguio]

Good looking job!