So, here's the start. First the floor needed to be removed. It's hard to see, but the seat bracket was almost completely rotted out of the floor. Wood! No place for it on a modern boat!



The carpet was coming up too. I started by removing all the trim.



Here's the front piece of plywood removed.



Look at the rot!



Here's the bow with the plywood floor removed.



A previous owner added a wood beam (on the "weak" side) to bolter the floor. Necessity is the mother of <poor> invention.



Here's the console starting to come off









Now to get all the old carpet off...






Down to the plywood...









Here's more of the rotted wood...



Now the real job begins! There was a mess of polyurethane foam sprayed in. Not really a quality job. The saga continues...




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