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First post here! Great forum you have here.

Recently partnered with my son on a 1981 Sea Nymph JB 142 and am redecking the fore and casting deck.

I have two other boats with carpeting on them, and thought I’d try something easier to maintain on this ratty boat.

Here’s the main point: I bought a couple rolls of the Northern Tool Anti-fatigue mats. I made a dead-nuts accurate template for the forward “wedge” part of the deck (trolling motor and lights mount there).

I rolled out the mat And let it sit flat to take the coil out of it.

I carefully cut out the foam mat. The boat was outside in the sun, BTW. I laid the mat on and it was perfect. I had other things to do, so let it sit for a couple hours. When I looked again, it was about 1/4” too big and not sitting flat, so I trimmed off the extra. This AM (real cool outside) I was going to glue it down and it had contracted that 1/4” AND another 1/8” or so.

The big question I suppose is: glue it when cold or hot? This stuff is super thermally unstable. My guess is glue it hot so it doesn’t buckle and bubble.

Any thoughts?
First post here! Great forum you have here.

Recently partnered with my son on a 1981 Sea Nymph JB 142 and am redecking the fore and casting deck.

I have two other boats with carpeting on them, and thought I’d try something easier to maintain on this ratty boat.

Here’s the main point: I bought a couple rolls of the Northern Tool Anti-fatigue mats. I made a dead-nuts accurate template for the forward “wedge” part of the deck (trolling motor and lights mount there).

I rolled out the mat And let it sit flat to take the coil out of it.

I carefully cut out the foam mat. The boat was outside in the sun, BTW. I laid the mat on and it was perfect. I had other things to do, so let it sit for a couple hours. When I looked again, it was about 1/4” too big and not sitting flat, so I trimmed off the extra. This AM (real cool outside) I was going to glue it down and it had contracted that 1/4” AND another 1/8” or so.

The big question I suppose is: glue it when cold or hot? This stuff is super thermally unstable. My guess is glue it hot so it doesn’t buckle and bubble.

Any thoughts?
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