Crest carpet for 220 Nautique. Available in 4 different colors. Please read the following:
This is the factory original "production" carpet. This carpet would have been used at the factory in production. The carpet has the snaps already installed in the carpet. Typically replacement carpet would have NO snaps installed and you would have to install all from scratch.
The production carpet can make installing extremely easy, or more difficult. If the snaps do not line up you have two choices. One: move the studs which are screwed to the floor to match the new carpet. OR Two (which is what we do) remove the offending snaps in the carpet and move to the correct position. The carpet is plush and thick enough you do not see where you removed the snaps.
Snaps are made like a rivet and can be removed cleanly by drilling out the inside stud and simply removing. To install new snaps in this thick carpet it is easier to pre-drill a pilot hole in the carpet then inserting the snap. You do need a special tool for installing snaps.
COLOR OPTIONS:
Surprisingly we have found there are 4 variations of this carpet. The pictures are marked with a red letter:
A: dark gray with white griffins,
B: light gray with tan accents (very few of these),
C: the stone/tan color, and
D: dark gray with light gray griffins.
Please see the pictures to see the differences.
NOTE: Here is some valuable info from one of our customers who installed a kit. He did have to move most if not all of his snaps. One other customer who called me did not have to move but a few... go figure!!
Even though one piece fit inside of all the boat mounted
snaps, I did not have to move the boat snaps. I found that the VERY
warm sun softened the rubber backing on the new carpet, and made
stretching it much, much easier. What I thought was an impossible fit,
was made easy just by letting it warm up from the sun. Once I figured
that out, I just moved the snaps as close to the cording as possible and
relied on stretching it to fit.
***THIS IS THE MOST
IMPORTANT REVELATION*****. I found that you must get a specific type
of snap. Standard snaps that most hardware and fabric stores sell will
not work. You have to find snaps that have an extra long shank (aka
barrel). They are very hard to find, but you can find them at
www.sailrite.com.
The carpet is too thick for a standard barrel and you will never get
the snap installed properly if it doesn't have the extra long barrel. I
can get you the part numbers for
sailrite.com
if you want. They are 15 cents a piece. Not only will it make things
easier, you dont have to drill as big a hole in the carpet to get these
to work, because they will pass through the carpet with a much smaller
hole.
Hope this helps. Overall, it has been a great experience. A lot of
work, yes. But in the end, I learned a lot and love the new carpet.
Its a huge improvement to our Nautique. David S.(Fort Wayne, IN)