I purchased this boat towards the end of Summer last year, finally thought this is a boat I can keep for quite a while.  After using it some last fall and more this year, there were several things that bugged me.

1: There were times where I would get a little water in the boat, not much maybe half a gallon for fishing all day.  This would happen some days and not others.

2: The covers for the switches would come off or over rotate

3: The was a small soft spot in the main flooring right where you step off the front deck

 

I figured that most of these I could live with, and wouldn't have to remodel the boat, well about 3 weeks ago my son and I were out fishing and after half hour or so, he snagged his line in a tree, as I went to the back of the boat to help him I noticed water coming over the floor.  I was able to get the boat on plain and head towards the access thinking my drain plug came out (I always keep a spare or two).  When I reached the dock and jumped out the plug was still there, so I loaded up and headed home.  Well long story short the hose on my livewell drain came off the fitting and that is what was filling my boat with water.  After trying to reconnect it I found out that the wood under the livewell was rotted out.  So now the remodel needs to happen.  I'll post up pictures of the progress and notes, here's my plan right now, all new plumbing, wiring, flooring and a updated rod locker with storage tubes. 

 

 

OP seems sort of incomplete - is there more to this ?

A-Jay

Sorry I edited it I guess when you hit the tab key and the enter it posts the comment

 

It's all good.

Best of luck with your re-model.

A-Jay

Plan on the deeper you dig, the more you will find.  I'm the type that keeps going until it is all "right".  But that is not necessary with sound judgement of the important things, it sounds like all the parts are there for your project, which is in operable condition already.  I had to come up with many replacement parts for mine, like switches, breakers,  pumps, structural problems, etc.  

 

Harbor Freight has good marine shrink tubing, the kind with sealer that comes out when you shrink it, I highly recommend it.  Try to comparison shop when you can, since everything with a "marine" attached to it's name is automatically priced 50% or more, but "marine grade" items are not necessary for many parts of the restoration, fittings, tubing, etc.

 

Home Depot has all of the plumbing and fittings you will need.  Marine wire is tinned and will not corrode as easily, but is a good bit more money, worth it though, in my opinion, since getting to wiring is going to be a ton of work and ruined carpet, etc,  if you would need to ever get to corroded standard wiring.  Hopefully your flotation foam and transom are Ok, they added up to the bulk of the work to my restoration.

 

They say buy twice as much carpet as your boat is long, I found that to be pretty close.  Mine is 17ft, I bought 30ft of 6ft wide and I have enough left over to cover any new hatches, or "oops moments" that might have occured.  I used marine carpet, and Weldwood contact cement (any home store) and didn't even mess with the trowel type carpet glues.  I was very happy with my carpet job, although I imagine the trowel type glue would hide the seems in the aluminum where panels are riveted together, where as you can see those type of lap joints under my carpet, but, ehh, I can live with it.  I can't even imagine using the trowel glue on the types of shapes that need cut/spliced/wrapped.  

 

Dont let the internet fool you, the bond with contact cement is not as instantaneous as forums make it sound.  Just don't let the glue set up as long as the instructions say.  Let both pieces sit for like 5 minutes instead of 20, then apply, the glue will be soft enough to move things around a bit.  Big panels of carpet, like the floor panel, I folded the carpet back on the mid line of the panel, glued from center out and stuck it, then folded the other side and glued that from center out, other smaller panels/surfaces can be done all at once, and the contact cement allows you to go right to folding over and mitering edges, worked like a charm.

 

And try to reuse as many of the factory fasteners as you can, as they should have been stainless steel, if not, replace with SS, again, the home stores carry all you might need, except very large bolts like motor mount bolts, etc.  But you should be able to reuse your existing big stuff.

 

Sorry, once I got going there I couldn't stop 

 

TRF

 

 

Thanks for the advise, this will be the 4th boat I'll have remodeled.  One trick that I learned after the first 2 boats for the wiring is to route everything through PVC conduit from front to back with tee's for drops where needed.  This makes pulling new circuits really easy and replacing bad wiring if need be.  I like the idea of the Weldwood contact cement I've always just used carpet glue and a trowel, so I'll be looking into that cement.

Here's a couple of before pictures

So I started this project a week ago and made really good headway.  I found out that when Alumacraft made this boat the put the floor in then attached all the compartments to it, then riveted the compartments together.  I needed to remove all of the compartments in order to get the flooring out, that was more challenging then I thought it would be since it was very difficult to get at some of the rivets.  Once I got the flooring out I found that they used 1/2" plywood for the floor, I'm thinking about leaving the floor 1/2" for under the compartments and then go to 3/4" on the main floor to help stiffen it up.  I did have to remove some of the foam but not very much, so I'll replace it with a good closed cell foam.  I also have all the plumbing done and more of the wiring complete.  Now it's time to start on the flooring so I can finish off the wiring.

I was able to work on my boat some more over the last couple of days and was able to get the new lower floor (under the front casting platform cut carpeted and installed.  I also reused the 3/4" marine grade plywood for the casting deck since it was in great shape, I carpeted it and have it sitting in place waiting for the lids to be carpeted.  I cut the old floor pieces a the edges of the compartments so I can have 1/2" under the compartments and 3/4" on the main floor (This will also help if the main floor ever needs to be replaced in the future), I installed and plumbed the livewell and the main electrical compartments.  Now I can finish installing and wiring the gauge cluster and switch panel. 

Here's a picture of the front deck carpeted and sitting in place.  I'll attach a material list if anyone is interested in cost of the project or where I got some items from.

Not sure why I can't post more than one picture at a time/day?

Looking good.  

 

There is a limit on total file size upload per post.  Make your pictures smaller and you can fit more of them per post.  I transferred pictures to "paint", re-sized, saved, then upload to BR.