when puttting carpet on- make sure you can get almost all of the old carpet and
cement off the boat. When i did mine - almost stopped competely when boat was
clean of carpet.......beautiful metal flake under carpet - maybe your ranger will be
same as they usually metal flake entire boat prior to carpet being layed. If you elect
to continue and put on new carpet - use a good grade of indoor / outdoor carpet - c
can actually get some good deals on e-bay for marine carpet. Do not buy the top
of line...about midway grouping is best. Too much pile and you will hate it......Go with
a Grey / charcoal grey of that coloring........black is very hot - blue shows every little problem. and number thing about laying the carpet is keep the pattern all running same direction - will will be able to tell when you run hand down carpet.......
if everything running smooth to touch your ok, if it piles up on you going wrong direction. Seats - upholstery - I found a guy down in Ruskin that did my seats for
$125.00 ea........... look around and talk with some upholsters...........
(use lots of Mineral Spirits & several putty knifes to clean the cement off floor before
carpet) Another thing about laying carpet - allow 1 - 1.5 inchs beyond point of
setting - be ready to use lots of razor blades to cut it to your liking.
There are people in fibreglass business that will gellcoat it for you, again look around
and make phone calls, some will do prep and shoot it - than you get to rub it out and
buff...(lots of sweat involved but price might be right) if you wish have many
picture of my procraft when we did carpet.