Great video with excellent explanations. Always a good idea to use a marine caulk to seal any holes from the removal of the old floor mounted male snaps. Water intrusion into any fiberglass panel especially a balsa cored panel is a recipe for delamination.
Next time you do snaps take a crayon or white grease pencil and mark the snap stud on the boat then when you press the capet or canvas you will have a white circle easy to see. I am a canvas guy
Just curious, we are looking at a express cruiser similar to yours. It would be a bay boat but possibly a loop boat. Do you think the two of you would be comfortable doing the loop on your Sea Ray.
Honestly for an extended time like the loop I might prefer a different style boat like aft or fly that has more living space. For one, I wish we had a separate dinette and couch. Positives are stall shower & full size fridge - definitely makes it easier for longer stays. We can spend a week on it without any issues (+ 2 kids) and from a performance standpoint Sea Rays are great boats. Good luck with your search!
we used our existing snap posts that were in our floor from our old carpet - they are screwed in and if you needed to add any you will want to make sure you use marine sealant.
Beautiful carpet! I have a question and would really appreciate your opinion. I’m looking at a 1998 400 Sundancer but I am worried about this boat having a cored hull. My current 370 Sundancer is solid fiberglass. I’m am looking to upgrade and am trying to figure out the hull construction. If you have any information on this I would be grateful!
Thank you! We’re really happy with it. So not sure but there’s a good discussion on Club Sea Ray that might give you more insight - hope this helps & good luck with everything!! clubsearay.com/index.php?threads/cored-below-the-waterline.6864/
There are some hot spots when sun shines directly on it - but honestly that also happened with our carpet. We typically have most of our cockpit shaded by our full canvas. Benefits seem to outweigh that… WAY better than issues we had with our carpet!
@@MyBoatLife Thanks for the reply, good to know! I really enjoy the channel! We're down every weekend (kids are grown), I like watching people go to different places on the bay. Great vids!
@@MetalDiggr thank you so much - we really appreciate it!! got a few food trips this season so hope to put up a few cruising videos soon. Enjoy your summer!! 😊
Great video with excellent explanations. Always a good idea to use a marine caulk to seal any holes from the removal of the old floor mounted male snaps. Water intrusion into any fiberglass panel especially a balsa cored panel is a recipe for delamination.
Yes definitely good advice! That’s our plan when we remove old snaps in fiberglass
Nice job it looks great!
Thank you - we’re really happy with it!!
Looks great!! If i ever get the drive to remove my Seadek I will surely go this route. I dont like how the debris shows on Seadek.
Thank you!! Yeah we’re pretty happy with it. There’s definitely a few trade offs with each kind.
Next time you do snaps take a crayon or white grease pencil and mark the snap stud on the boat then when you press the capet or canvas you will have a white circle easy to see. I am a canvas guy
Ahhh good tip thanks! 👍
Do you screw the boat snap in? Or glue it? They did not show that part. It was just magically on their boat. Thanks
Just curious, we are looking at a express cruiser similar to yours. It would be a bay boat but possibly a loop boat. Do you think the two of you would be comfortable doing the loop on your Sea Ray.
Honestly for an extended time like the loop I might prefer a different style boat like aft or fly that has more living space. For one, I wish we had a separate dinette and couch. Positives are stall shower & full size fridge - definitely makes it easier for longer stays. We can spend a week on it without any issues (+ 2 kids) and from a performance standpoint Sea Rays are great boats. Good luck with your search!
You did not show the floor snap and how you attached that to your boat flooring? Was Glued, Screw in? If screwed was it sealed?
we used our existing snap posts that were in our floor from our old carpet - they are screwed in and if you needed to add any you will want to make sure you use marine sealant.
Beautiful carpet! I have a question and would really appreciate your opinion. I’m looking at a 1998 400 Sundancer but I am worried about this boat having a cored hull. My current 370 Sundancer is solid fiberglass. I’m am looking to upgrade and am trying to figure out the hull construction. If you have any information on this I would be grateful!
Thank you! We’re really happy with it. So not sure but there’s a good discussion on Club Sea Ray that might give you more insight - hope this helps & good luck with everything!! clubsearay.com/index.php?threads/cored-below-the-waterline.6864/
Also it goes without saying (but we’ll say it anyway lol) you should hire an accredited Marine surveyor who will sound the hull to detect soft spots
We're on Middle River, held off replacing our Sundancer carpet to figure out what we like. Do u find your new floor gets hot?
There are some hot spots when sun shines directly on it - but honestly that also happened with our carpet. We typically have most of our cockpit shaded by our full canvas. Benefits seem to outweigh that… WAY better than issues we had with our carpet!
@@MyBoatLife Thanks for the reply, good to know! I really enjoy the channel! We're down every weekend (kids are grown), I like watching people go to different places on the bay. Great vids!
@@MetalDiggr thank you so much - we really appreciate it!! got a few food trips this season so hope to put up a few cruising videos soon. Enjoy your summer!! 😊
Loud grunting helps tool. Bahahaha
Got that right!!! Works well with most boat projects Grrrr!! 😭
@@MyBoatLife Maybe a few choice words when not on camera as well!!
@@CaptainTodd 💯😂