We have just purchased a center cockpit S2 11.0. It is not in our possession yet as we are having some work done on her. But I am wanting to know if anyone has any experience with replacing or cleaning the wall covering that is characteristic of all S2's it would seem. Does it come off easily and if so has anyone replaced it with anything. Or if it is steam cleaned does anyone have experience with it coming unglued?
Wall Covering
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I have a 1983 S2 11.0A that originally came with a blue and gray tweed like material inside the cabin. I tried to vacum it at first but it still collected dust and just made the interior smell "musty". It is held in place by contact glue and came off quite easily.The glue was then removed by lightly scrubing with a wire brush, sanded and painted. Most areas were then covered with "batten strips" of wood. Not hard, just tedious.
Thank you..sounds like a project solution. Was the fiberglass behind the covering smooth or bumby?
Thank..we were going to try using a steam cleaner so it that takes off the covering that might not be a bad thing either. That is the only thing about the boat that we do not like.
My mate was driven crazy by the mildew that was on the wall coverings on our boat, which had sat for 5 yrs. It wasn't nearly as bad as I've seen mildew on some boats, nonetheless she wouldn't stand for it.
She stripped the carpet headliner out and has primed the overhead with Kilz. It's an unfinished fiberglas surface so it doesn't look very nice, but it afforded us the opprotunity to see the condition of the balsa coring, some of which was clearly discolored from saturation. She also stripped out the wall covering in the head, which was heavily glued on. some of the veneer on the teak plywood splintered and started to peel in places. We re-covered the head walls with a heavy, but smooth textured wall covering. As for the overhead, we plan to panel it using off-white formica with teak battens at the seams. A fun winter project!
She stripped the carpet headliner out and has primed the overhead with Kilz. It's an unfinished fiberglas surface so it doesn't look very nice, but it afforded us the opprotunity to see the condition of the balsa coring, some of which was clearly discolored from saturation. She also stripped out the wall covering in the head, which was heavily glued on. some of the veneer on the teak plywood splintered and started to peel in places. We re-covered the head walls with a heavy, but smooth textured wall covering. As for the overhead, we plan to panel it using off-white formica with teak battens at the seams. A fun winter project!
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